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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2018
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shantanu Rane, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alejandro E. Brito, Mountain View, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment facilities user access to a standalone computing device. During operation, the system receives, by the standalone computing device from a mobile computing device associated with a user, a first command to access capabilities of the standalone computing device, wherein the first command includes an ephemeral user identifier which includes an ephemeral key and indicates user-specific metadata, wherein the ephemeral key is generated by a network service, wherein the ephemeral user identifier is digitally signed with a private key of the network service, and wherein the standalone computing device is not directly accessible by the network service. The system verifies, by the standalone computing device using a public key of the network service, that the ephemeral user identifier was generated by the network service. The system executes, by the standalone computing device, the first command based on the user-specific metadata.