US 12,003,343 B2
Lightweight chat session participant
Jad Osseiran, San Francisco, CA (US); Xudong Liu, Campbell, CA (US); Andrew J. Daley, Santa Clara, CA (US); Adam Y. Syed, Cupertino, CA (US); Nicholas J. Circosta, Mountain View, CA (US); Sunil S. Rao, San Jose, CA (US); Zak C. Wegweiser, San Francisco, CA (US); Jingyao Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Wan-Ya Chen, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/744,592.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/189,151, filed on May 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368551 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 12/1822 (2013.01) [H04L 12/1827 (2013.01); H04L 63/0876 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
provisioning, by a media device, a device identifier based on a hardware certificate of the media device;
registering, by the media device, the device identifier with a server;
establishing an encrypted connection between the media device and a client device;
receiving, at the media device, from the client device, and via the encrypted connection, a request for a temporary identifier for a group chat session;
provisioning, by the media device, the temporary identifier based on the device identifier of the media device;
providing, by the media device and via the encrypted connection, the temporary identifier to the client device;
receiving, at the media device and from the server, an invitation to join the group chat session, wherein the invitation is directed to the temporary identifier; and
joining, by the media device, the group chat session.