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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10924461 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2017

Secure two-way beacon in an internet of things (iot) system

Applicant:

Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Joe Britt, Los Altos, CA (US);

Benjamin K. Gibbs, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Dan Altin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);

Attorney:

Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP

Primary Examiner:

Barbara B Anyan

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 12/00 (2021.01); H04W 12/04 (2021.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.01); H04W 4/20 (2018.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0435 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04L 67/125 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 12/001 (2019.01); H04W 12/0401 (2019.01); H04W 12/04033 (2019.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); G06Q 30/0235 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0261 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2013.01); H04L 63/166 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 4/20 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02); H04W 4/50 (2018.02);
Abstract

An apparatus and method are described for implementing a 2-way beacon. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a beacon to transmit a first advertisement packet associated with 1-way functions available from the beacon and to further transmit a second advertisement packet associated with 2-way functions available from the beacon; the first advertisement packet to cause an app and/or hub to be initialized on a mobile device; and the second advertisement packet to cause the beacon to establish a first secure communication channel to a cloud service through the app and/or hub.

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