Google Inc.

Brian De Vries

Ken Krieger

Michel Weksler

Yassir Abousselham

Daniel E Crosby

Curtis Steeves

Parag Ladhawala

Ankit Prasad

Zachary Cancio

Krishna Kishore Kollipara

A computing device receives a response comprising one or more data sets corresponding to an identifier. The computing device identifies a first data set identifier in the response that signals the beginning of a first data set and edits the first data set to comprise a first keyboard stroke entry prefix understood by a second computing device as defining the first data set as a first particular type of data and a keyboard stroke entry suffix understood by the second computing device as defining an end of the first data set. The computing device identifies and edits a second data set. The edited first and second data sets are transmitted to the second computing device, where it processes the data sets based on the keyboard stroke entry prefixes and recognizes the end of the data sets based on the keyboard stroke entry suffix.

Keyboard input emulation

A master beacon device emits a data packet that is received and retransmitted by servant beacon devices in a wireless mesh network that enables the beacon devices to detect the received signal strength indicator ('RSSI') of beacon devices in proximity. Each servant beacon device transmits survey data packets comprising the RSSIs and hardware identifiers of proximate beacon devices to the master beacon device, which constructs a first virtual map of the mesh network. At a later time, each servant beacon device transmits authentication data packets, which are retransmitted, each retransmitting beacon inserting an RSSI and hardware identifier of the beacon device from which the authentication data packet was received, until they reach the master beacon device, which constructs a second virtual map of the mesh network. The master beacon device compares the first virtual map to the second virtual map to determine if the network is secure.

Securing a wireless mesh network via a chain of trust

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Brian De Vries