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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:
Mar. 21, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2013
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nicholas D. Triantafillou, Portland, OR (US);

Todd A. Keaffaber, Lake Oswego, OR (US);

Shai Skavas Kavas, Mevasseret, IL;

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 13/00 (2006.01); H04K 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 13/005 (2013.01); H04B 13/00 (2013.01); H04K 1/00 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 76/021 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to form and maintain secure communications among two or more body-carried devices disposed in close proximity to the body of a person to form a body area network (BAN). An apparatus to establish secure communications includes a processor component; a signal component for execution by the processor component to compare a signal characteristic of a security test signal to a known signal characteristic of the security test signal to derive a bioelectric characteristic, the security test signal received via a tissue; and a bioelectric component for execution by the processor component to determine whether to allow transmission of data through the tissue based on the bioelectric characteristic. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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