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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Scott Lopatin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Emmanuel Lalande, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lawrence T. Lu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert W. Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Siva Ganesh Movva, Cupertino, CA (US);
Raghunandan K. Pai, Saratoga, CA (US);
Munish K. Poonia, San Jose, CA (US);
Tommy Rochette, San Jose, CA (US);
Sam Schaevitz, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yannick L. Sierra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Navin Bindiganavile Suparna, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Langford Wasada, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.