Wireless Boot Status Packets for Network Device Onboarding

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Solution Overview

Problem

Network devices lack visible indicators during booting, leading to uncertainty for end users about their operational status.

Innovation Solution

Network devices broadcast wireless packets, such as Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) Advertisement packets, containing data on their boot status, enabling client devices to provide visual, audio, or haptic feedback to users.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the network device transmits wireless packets during boot sequence, then user awareness of boot status is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveboot status informationVSAvoidnetwork device complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The network device transmits boot status information packets during the boot sequence before the device is fully operational. This preliminary action informs users of the boot status early in the process, reducing information loss without requiring the device to be fully configured first.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses wireless packets as an intermediary carrier to transmit boot status information from the network device to the user's computing device. This intermediary mechanism enables communication of boot status without requiring direct user interaction with the booting device or complex user interfaces on the network device itself.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If the network device broadcasts boot status packets, then user experience is improved, but energy consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveboot completion informationVSAvoidnetwork device energy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The network device transmits boot status information at periodic intervals or at key milestones during the boot sequence rather than continuously. This periodic transmission approach provides users with timely updates on boot progress while minimizing energy consumption by keeping the radio transmitter dormant during idle boot periods.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

3Ease of operation

If wireless packets are transmitted during boot sequence, then network adoption process is facilitated, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenetwork adoption processVSAvoidnetwork device complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The network device provides feedback to the user's computing device about its boot status through wireless packets. This feedback mechanism includes information such as boot progress indicators and completion status, enabling the user's device to display appropriate status messages and guide users through the network adoption process without requiring complex manual monitoring.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20260100898A1Using Wireless Packets to Indicate Device Boot Status

Publication Date: 2026.04.09 UBIQUITI INC

AI summary

An example method for using wireless packets to indicate boot status of a network device is disclosed. The method includes initiating a boot sequence of a network device. The method also includes during at least a portion of the boot sequence, transmitting a first wireless packet comprising data indicating a boot status of the network device, wherein the boot status indicates the network device is booting. The method also includes transmitting a second wireless packet comprising data indicating the boot status of the network device, wherein the boot status indicates the network device has finished booting.