Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Secure pairing of devices via pairing facilitator-intermediary device
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Application No.: US16743918Application Date: 2020-01-15
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Publication No.: US11497070B2Publication Date: 2022-11-08
- Inventor: Heiko Gernot Albert Panther
- Applicant: Fitbit, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04W76/14
- IPC: H04W76/14 ; A61B5/00 ; H04L9/40 ; H04W12/00 ; H04W12/02 ; H04W12/30 ; H04W12/50 ; A61B5/0205 ; A61B5/11

Abstract:
The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to systems and circuitry for and/or methods of establishing communication having one or more pairing facilitator-intermediary devices (for example, a network connected server) to enable or facilitate pairing and/or registering at least two devices (e.g., (i) a portable biometric monitoring device and (ii) a smartphone, laptop and/or tablet) to, for example, recognize, interact and/or enable interoperability between such devices. The pairing facilitator-intermediary device may responsively communicates information to one or more of the devices (to be paired or registered) which, in response, enable or facilitate such devices to pair or register. The present inventions may be advantageous where one or both of the devices to be paired or registered is/are not configured (e.g., include a user interface or certain communication circuitry that is configured or includes functionality) to pair devices without use of a facilitator-intermediary device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200229250A1 SECURE PAIRING OF DEVICES VIA PAIRING FACILITATOR-INTERMEDIARY DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-07-16
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