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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jason C. Conn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Akshay Mangalam Srivastsa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Craig P. Dooley, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael J. Giles, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In order to reduce latency and overhead during the device discovery process, operations involved in pairing of two electronic devices may be predefined. In particular, when a user specifies a new electronic device in a list of their electronic devices, a computer provides a notification to these electronic devices. In response to the notification, a given one of the electronic devices generates encryption information and identification information for the given electronic device, and provides this encryption information and identification information to the new electronic device via a network (such as the Internet). Then, the new electronic device generates encryption information and identification information for the new electronic device, and provides this encryption information and identification information to the given electronic device via the network. This pairing information may subsequently facilitate secure wireless communication between the two electronic devices.