M2md Technologies, Inc.

Austin Ross

Charles Martin Link, Ii

A computer device associated with a vehicle pairs during an initial/setup pairing process with a UE device according to a wireless protocol. The devices exchange and store cryptographic information during pairing. Later, either device may detect/discover that the other is currently in its presence. Presence discovery may trigger the vehicle device to generate and broadcast an operational request message based on the cryptographic information, such as a public key of the UE, stored in the vehicle device. The UE receives the request, and transmits in response a vehicle operation permission message that it generates based on user input and cryptographic information, such as a public key of the vehicle device, stored by the UE during initial/setup pairing. The operational request message may be transmitted as an audio signal and received by a microphone of the UE. The vehicle device receives the permission message and generates an operation instruction based thereon.

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Cumberland, RI, United States of America

Austin Ross