US 12,445,273 B2
Sharing keys for a wireless accessory
Emmanuel Lalande, San Francisco, CA (US); Michael C. Laster, Santa Clara, CA (US); Scott Lopatin, San Francisco, CA (US); Munish K. Poonia, San Jose, CA (US); Tommy Rochette, San Jose, CA (US); Yannick L. Sierra, San Francisco, CA (US); Tim Taubert, Berlin (DE); and Steven A. Myers, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/603,562
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/028318
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 13, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/214701, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/856,020, filed on Jun. 1, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/835,494, filed on Apr. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0200789 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 12/0431 (2021.01)
CPC H04L 9/085 (2013.01) [H04L 9/0819 (2013.01); H04L 9/0891 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 12/0431 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processor to perform operations comprising:
determining, for a wireless accessory device by an owner device associated with an owner, a share recipient and a set of capabilities to delegate to the share recipient, wherein the wireless accessory device is owned by the owner;
creating a storage record including fields to store an identifier of the share recipient, an identifier of the wireless accessory device, and the set of capabilities to be shared with the share recipient;
sending, by the owner device, a share request to a share recipient device that is associated with the share recipient;
in response to receipt of an accept message from the share recipient device, marking, by the owner device, the storage record as accepted; and
sending a set of cryptographic keys to the share recipient device to enable the share recipient device to perform the set of capabilities on the wireless accessory device.