US 12,262,197 B2
Sender verification for encrypted electronic messaging
Elliot A. Barer, Santa Clara, CA (US); Pierre J. Defilippis, San Jose, CA (US); Roberto Garcia, Santa Clara, CA (US); Timothy Shaw, Cupertino, CA (US); Craig M. Federighi, Cupertino, CA (US); Darin B. Adler, Cupertino, CA (US); and Jonathon Sodos, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/316,664.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/023,134, filed on May 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0352470 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 12/033 (2021.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04W 12/69 (2021.01)
CPC H04W 12/033 (2021.01) [H04W 12/69 (2021.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
determining, by a first device and based on (1) an identifier of the first device or (2) an identifier of a second device, whether the first device is eligible to send a message to the second device with a first strength of encryption that is higher than a second strength of encryption;
in accordance with a determination that the first device is eligible to send the message to the second device with the first strength of encryption, sending, by the first device, the message with the first strength of encryption via a first network; and
in accordance with a determination that the first device is not eligible to send the message to the second device with the first strength of encryption, sending, by the first device, the message with the second strength of encryption via a second network that differs from the first network.