MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202418090246 A) filed by Apple Inc. on November 20, 2024, for Locating Electronic Devices And Associated Wireless Accessories.
Inventors include Lopatin, Scott; Lalande, Emmanuel; Lu, Lawrence T.; Mayor, Robert W.; Movva, Siva Ganesh; Pai, Raghunandan K. Number; Poonia, Munish K.; Rochette, Tommy; Schaevitz, Sam Filed On; Sierra, Yannick L.; Suparna, Navin Bindiganavile; and Wasada, Langford.
The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.
Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.
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