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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2022
Applicant:

Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Inventors:

Tommi Petteri Parkkila, Cary, NC (US);

Dathathreya Krishnabhat, Bengaluru, IN;

Matthew Rockey, Fishers, IN (US);

Assignee:

ITRON, INC., Liberty Lake, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0891 (2013.01); H04L 9/0894 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques for managing encryption keys at nodes in a mesh network. In various embodiments, a method includes, while in a key failure detection time period associated with a first key, detecting, by a node in a mesh network, a decryption failure using the first key; in response to detecting the decryption failure using the first key, incrementing, by the node, a failure count for the first key; and in response to determining that the failure count is at least a threshold count and a key update time period has been entered, transmitting, by the node to a key management service, a request for an update to the first key.


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