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Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2021
Applicant:

Verifone, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);

Inventors:

John Henry Barrowman, Knoxville, TN (US);

Santhosh Kumar Gillella, Naperville, IL (US);

Assignee:

VeriFone, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/32 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Secure electronic devices and methods are disclosed. A method may include: using a transceiver, a computer program capturing a current connectivity fingerprint comprising at least one current wireless network or device in a current environment for an electronic device; the computer program retrieving a home connectivity fingerprint for a home environment comprising at least one home wireless network or device that fingerprint was captured when the electronic device was in a home environment; the computer program comparing the current connectivity fingerprint to the home connectivity fingerprint; and the computer program storing the current connectivity fingerprint in response to a threshold number of the current wireless networks or devices in the current connectivity fingerprint are not present of the home connectivity fingerprint.


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