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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:
Dec. 02, 2008

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2002
Applicants:

Paul C. Drews, Gaston, OR (US);

David M. Wheeler, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Inventors:

Paul C. Drews, Gaston, OR (US);

David M. Wheeler, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for finding a shared secret without compromising non-shared secrets are disclosed. The methods and apparatus receive a first group of hashed secrets from a communication device and compare the first group of hashed secrets to a second group of hashed secrets associated with an application server. A shared secret is identified among the first and second groups of hashed secrets. An application associated with the shared secret is sent to the communication device via a communication channel.


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