US 12,450,329 B1
Anonymization in a low power physical asset tracking system
Gabriel Torres, Boulder, CO (US); Ernie Aguilar, Austin, TX (US); Wael Barakat, San Francisco, CA (US); Eli Peer, San Carlos, CA (US); David Gal, Oakland, CA (US); Pierre Gavaret, Novato, CA (US); and Matthew Basham, Oakland, CA (US)
Assigned to Samsara Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Samsara Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 25, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/753,250.
Application 18/753,250 is a continuation of application No. 18/752,000, filed on Jun. 24, 2024, granted, now 12,256,021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/631,353, filed on Apr. 8, 2024.
Int. Cl. G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 13/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 21/44 (2013.01) [G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 13/10 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computerized method, performed by a computing system configured as a central and having one or more hardware computer processors and one or more computer readable storage mediums storing software instructions executable by the computing system, the computerized method comprising:
receiving a broadcast packet from a peripheral;
determining whether a cache comprises authorization information for the peripheral indicating that bi-directional connection between the central and the peripheral is authorized, wherein the cache comprises authorization information received from a backend;
based on determining that the cache does not include authorization information for the peripheral, sending a request to the backend to determine whether the central is authorized to connect to the peripheral, wherein the request includes an encrypted device identifier associated with the peripheral;
receiving a response from the backend indicating whether the central is authorized to connect to the peripheral; and
in response to the response indicating that the central is authorized to connect to the peripheral, establishing a bi-directional connection with the peripheral.