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Swadesh Bhattacharya

Robert William Mayor

Kevin M Lynch

Yannick L Sierra

Sriram Hariharan

Brent Michael Ledvina

Andreas Edgar Schobel

Julien F Freudiger

Raghunandan K Pai

Siva Ganesh Movva

Paul W Salzman

David John Williams

Tommy Rochette

Scott Lopatin

Langford M Wasada

Kyle C Brogle

Frank De Jong

Samuel B Schaevitz

Emmanuel Lalande

Adam M Driscoll

Munish K Poonia

Albert R Howard

Thomas Chathoth Abraham

Rachel F Needle

Christina Selle

Tunc Ertan

Jonathan R Schoenberg

Swaminathan Jayaraman

Sarish Jain

Michael C Laster

Mads N Paulin

Nicholas D Shourounis

Aashish Patil

Ernst Thomas Erdmann

A device implementing end-to-end encryption for location sharing may include at least one processor configured to generate a public-private keypair. The at least one processor may be further configured to encrypt, using a first key of the public-private keypair, location data corresponding to a location of the electronic device. The at least one processor may be further configured to transmit, to a server, the encrypted location data for storage. The at least one processor may be further configured to transmit, via a secure communication channel, a second key of the public-private keypair to another electronic device for subsequent retrieval of the encrypted location data by the other electronic device.

End-to-end encryption for location sharing

In some implementations, a first computing device can send notifications at times that the first computing device is not in an expected location. A user of a second computing device can remotely configure an expected location for the first computing device, which may be a particular location for a certain period of time. During that time, the first computing device can monitor its own location and check whether it is within the expected location. If the first computing device unexpectedly leaves or fails to enter the expected location, the first computing device may transmit a notification to the second computing device. Similarly, if the first computing device loses connectivity with other devices, a server device may notify the second computing device that the location of the first computing device cannot be determined.

Generating unexpected location notifications

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Swadesh Bhattacharya