Loyalty Iot, Inc.

Nexrf Corporation

Jesus P Espinoza

Michael Anthony Kerr

The system and method include a wireless client device, a cloud component, a gateway component, a geofence, and a proof of geofence (PoG) protocol. The PoG protocol continuously generating a PoG contract when the authenticated wireless client device is within the geofence. The PoG contract includes generating, by the gateway component, a PoG certificate that includes a mobile device public key, and a hash of a previous PoG contract. Also, the PoG contract requires the wireless client device to separately generate the PoG certificate within a time period with one or more mobile device sensors that includes a gateway component public key and the hash of the previous PoG contract. Additionally, the PoG contract records one or more signatures when the wireless client device generates the PoG certificate. A PoG ledger is then updated with each PoG contract.

Proof of geofence

A network based hyperlocal authentication system and method is described. A wireless client device requests a key from a remote network component. The remote network component generates and transmits the key to the gateway. The gateway then transmits the key to the client device application with a gateway short-range transceiver. The wireless client device receives the key from the gateway and then requests and receives a cryptographic material from the remote network component. The wireless client device communicates with the remote network component with the key, received from the gateway, and the cryptographic material, received from the network component.

Network based hyperlocal authentication

A system and method that authenticates and secures communications between a wireless client device and a remote network component. The system includes a gateway component that establishes a secure communications channel with the remote network component. A client device application, corresponding to the wireless client device, receives local authentication credentials from the gateway component. The client device application uses the local authentication credentials to authenticate to the remote network component. The client device application then requests an exclusive local key from the remote network component, which transmits the exclusive local key to the gateway component, which then transmits the exclusive local key to the client device application. The client device application, having the exclusive local key, requests and receives cryptographic material from the remote network component. The client device application secures communications to the remote network component with a shared secret that includes the exclusive local key received from the gateway component and the cryptographic material received from the network component.

Network based hyperlocal authentication with a gateway component

A network based hyperlocal authentication system and method is described. After establishing communications between a gateway and a remote network component, and after establishing communications between a wireless client device and the remote network component, the wireless client device requests an exclusive local key from the remote network component. The remote network component generates and transmits the exclusive local key to the gateway. The gateway then transmits the exclusive local key to the client device application with a gateway short range gateway transceiver. The wireless client device receives the exclusive local key from the gateway and then requests and receives a cryptographic material from the remote network component. The wireless client device communicates with the remote network component with the exclusive local key, received from the gateway, and the cryptographic material, received from the network component.

A Network Based Hyperlocal Authentication (NBHA) system and method for anonymous contact tracing is described. The NBHA system and method operates as a background process, which is passwordless and continuously authenticates and performs cryptographic operations to secure communications between a wireless client device and a remote network component. A gateway includes a short-range wireless transmitter that transmits authentication credentials to the wireless client device having a short-range wireless receiver. The wireless client device uses the authentication credentials to authenticate to the remote network component. The network component then generates an exclusive local key for the wireless client device that is transmitted by the gateway. The client device application then requests cryptographic material from the remote network component. The client device application encrypts and decrypts communications to the network component with the cryptographic material and the exclusive local key. The wireless client device encrypts contact tracing data with the shared secret.

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San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Jesus P Espinoza