US 12,231,414 B2
Secure multiway calling
Yan Yang, San Jose, CA (US); Jin Hyung Park, Cupertino, CA (US); Joe S. Abuan, Cupertino, CA (US); Berkat S. Tung, San Jose, CA (US); Sean P. Devlin, San Francisco, CA (US); Vu H. Chiem, San Jose, CA (US); Jose A. Lozano Hinojosa, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Thomas P. Devanneaux, Los Altos, CA (US); Vladimir Goupenko, Walnut Creek, CA (US); Hsien-Po Shiang, Mountain View, CA (US); Daniel B. Pollack, San Jose, CA (US); Mark M. Xue, Sunnyvale, CA (US); David J. Steele, San Jose, CA (US); Yu Xing, Cupertino, CA (US); Ryan W. Baker, Mountain View, CA (US); Christopher M. Garrido, San Jose, CA (US); and Ming Jin, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/480,127.
Application 17/480,127 is a division of application No. 16/147,545, filed on Sep. 28, 2018, granted, now 11,128,610.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/715,267, filed on Aug. 6, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/679,898, filed on Jun. 3, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/668,191, filed on May 7, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/565,910, filed on Sep. 29, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0006798 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 65/1069 (2022.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/065 (2013.01) [H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); H04L 12/1822 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/0435 (2013.01); H04L 63/0807 (2013.01); H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 2463/062 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A first electronic device comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor configured to:
join a multiway call between a plurality of members;
generate a first secret that decrypts traffic communicated by the first electronic device during the multiway call;
receive, from a second electronic device, a second secret that decrypts traffic communicated by the second electronic device during the multiway call, the second secret being different than the first secret; and
send the first and second secrets to a third electronic device to enable the third electronic device to decrypt traffic communicated by the first and second electronic devices during the multiway call.