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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2017
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Joe Britt, Los Altos, CA (US);
Shin Matsumura, Los Altos, CA (US);
Houman Forood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Zimmerman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Phillip Myles, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sean Zawicki, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daisuke Kutami, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shannon Holland, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Justin Lee, Berkeley, CA (US);
AFERO, INC., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A platform, apparatus and method are described for pairing devices. For example, one embodiment of a system for pairing devices comprises: a first data processing device having a machine-readable optical label associated therewith and including a first wireless communication interface; a second data processing device having a second wireless communication interface and an optical reader for reading identification data from the optical label associated with the first data processing device, the second wireless communication interface including pairing logic to use the identification data to pair with the first data processing device by establishing a secure communication channel between the first and second wireless communication interfaces.