US 12,328,574 B2
Securing return communication through application uniform resource locators
Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux, Kitchener (CA); and Douglas Andrew Steedman, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/306,870.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/364,017, filed on May 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0354018 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 12/041 (2021.01); H04W 12/037 (2021.01); H04W 12/0433 (2021.01)
CPC H04W 12/041 (2021.01) [H04W 12/037 (2021.01); H04W 12/0433 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of commissioning a joiner device to a home area network by an initiator device, the method comprising the initiator device:
obtaining a Responder Access Uniform Resource Locator (URL);
using the obtained Responder Access URL, generating an Augmented Responder Access URL;
accessing the Augmented Responder Access URL, at a responder, the accessing causing the responder to generate a Responder Payload;
accessing an Augmented Initiator Response URL including the generated Responder Payload; and
recovering the Responder Payload, the recovering of the Responder Payload causing the initiator device to commission the joiner device to the home area network.