MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647023538 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on Feb. 27, for 'use of device encryption key as basis for multi-account nearby-presence advertisement and discovery.'
Inventor(s) include Krahn, Darren, David.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method for account-specific discovery by a discoverer device that is pre-provisioned with (i) a first encryption seed, (ii) a second encryption seed, (iii) a double-encrypted metadata-encryption key (MEK), and (iv) encrypted metadata regarding an account configured on an advertiser device. The discoverer device (a) detects a broadcast advertisement message carrying an encrypted device-encryption-key (DEK) associated with the advertiser device, (b) uses the first encryption seed to decrypt the encrypted DEK and thereby to uncover the DEK, (c) maps the second encryption seed to the second encryption seed, the double-encrypted MEK, and the encrypted metadata, and (b) accordingly (i) uses the DEK and the second encryption key cooperatively as a basis to decrypt the double-encrypted MEK and thereby to uncover the MEK and (i) uses the uncovered MEK as a basis to decrypt the encrypted metadata and thereby to uncover the metadata regarding the account configured on the advertiser device."
The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 20, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/047710.
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