Jason N Schmidlapp, Age 481919 Huxley Ct, San Jose, CA 95125

2021002, Jan 21, 2021

Oct 2, 2020

17/061996

- San Jose CA, US
Jim Funk - Los Gatos CA, US
Sujatha Jagannathan - San Jose CA, US
Liang-Jong Huang - Pleasanton CA, US
Jason Schmidlapp - Los Gatos CA, US
Tito Thomas - San Jose CA, US
Ilya Asnis - San Jose CA, US

Roku, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04W 12/06
H04W 40/24
H04W 8/00
H04L 12/24
H04L 29/06
H04L 9/06
H04W 76/14

Many customers have difficulty setting up a new extender device in the customer premises environment to improve their multimedia service. Some embodiments include configuring an extender device based on existing WiFi network credentials to minimize errors. Some embodiments include an application for mobile devices that may enable the transfer of network credentials from existing multimedia devices on the WiFi network to configure a new extender device in real time. For example, the configuration may be based on a customer account, a corresponding environment, and corresponding multimedia devices associated with the customer account. The extender device may be configured with the network credentials (e.g., a WiFi service set identifier (SSID) and password) that is common to the corresponding multimedia devices associated with the customer account.

2019037, Dec 5, 2019

May 31, 2018

15/994382

- Los Gatos CA, US
Jim Funk - Los Gatos CA, US
Sujatha Jagannathan - San Jose CA, US
Liang-Jong Huang - Pleasanton CA, US
Jason Schmidlapp - Los Gatos CA, US
Tito Thomas - San Jose CA, US
Ilya Asnis - San Jose CA, US

Roku, Inc. - Los Gatos CA

H04W 12/06
H04W 40/24
H04W 8/00
H04W 76/14
H04L 12/24
H04L 29/06
H04L 9/06

Many customers have difficulty setting up a new extender device in the customer premises environment to improve their multimedia service. Some embodiments include configuring an extender device based on existing WiFi network credentials to minimize errors. Some embodiments include an application for mobile devices that may enable the transfer of network credentials from existing multimedia devices on the WiFi network to configure a new extender device in real time. For example, the configuration may be based on a customer account, a corresponding environment, and corresponding multimedia devices associated with the customer account. The extender device may be configured with the network credentials (e.g., a WiFi service set identifier (SSID) and password) that is common to the corresponding multimedia devices associated with the customer account.

2019037, Dec 5, 2019

May 31, 2018

15/994362

- Los Gatos CA, US
Jim FUNK - Los Gatos CA, US
Sujatha JAGANNATHAN - San Jose CA, US
Liang-Jong HUANG - Pleasanton CA, US
Jason SCHMIDLAPP - Los Gatos CA, US
Tito THOMAS - San Jose CA, US
Ilya ASNIS - San Jose CA, US

Roku, Inc. - Los Gatos CA

H04W 88/18
H04W 88/04
H04W 24/02
H04W 74/00

Some embodiments include assessing multimedia service in a particular environment, determining in real-time whether an extender device would improve the multimedia service in the particular environment, and communicating a recommendation via a graphical user interface (GUI). The assessing is based on physical layer and application layer measurements of the multimedia service in the particular environment. Some embodiments utilize an application on a mobile communications device that may be used in conjunction with a multimedia device to determine placement of an extender device among multimedia devices associated with a same multimedia service customer account for a desired performance and hence, a desired customer experience.