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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
May. 27, 2011
Thomas A. Donaldson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas A. Donaldson, San Francisco, CA (US);
AliphCom, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, apparatus, and method for enabling a communication device to be paired with multiple other communication devices that are connected to a network without the need to conduct a separate pairing operation between the first communication device and each of the other network-connected devices. The data exchanged between a user's communication device and a peer communication device (e.g., one of a group of network-connected communication devices) that is used to authenticate communications between the user device and the peer device (i.e., link key) is stored in a network-accessible data storage and retrieval system. The link key is used by the user device when attempting to establish communications with a different peer device (e.g., another one of the network-connected devices) and is retrieved by the other network-connected peer device and used to enable authenticated communications between the other peer device and the user device.