US 11,990,935 B2
Devices, systems, and methods for free space key exchange
Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Ilion (GR); Elad Mentovich, Tel Aviv (IL); Tali Septon, Haifa (IL); Dimitrios Syrivelis, Volos (GR); Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas, Athens (GR); Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis, Papagou (GR); and Moshe Oron, Rehovot (IL)
Assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam (IL)
Filed by MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam (IL)
Filed on Jan. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/568,441.
Claims priority of application No. 20210100915 (GR), filed on Dec. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0208517 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. H04B 10/11 (2013.01); H04B 10/70 (2013.01)
CPC H04B 10/11 (2013.01) [H04B 10/70 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a support structure;
one or more first optical components on the support structure that communicatively couple with a plurality of first endpoints, the one or more first optical components being configured to output and receive optical signals that travel over a free space medium to establish separate secure links between the plurality of first endpoints and one or more second endpoints;
a mechanism configured to move the one or more first optical components; and
processing circuitry configured to:
receive a first request to establish a secure link between an endpoint of the plurality of first endpoints and an endpoint of the one or more second endpoints;
determine, in response to the first request, a first pose of the one or more first optical components based on a known position of one or more second optical components that communicatively couple to the endpoint of the one or more second endpoints; and
send a first control signal to the mechanism to move the one or more first optical components to the determined first pose to establish at least part of a first path for the optical signals to travel through the free space medium between the one or more first optical components and the one or more second optical components.