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AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsScott Lopatin, Emmanuel Lalande, Lawrence T. Lu, Robert W. Mayor, Siva Ganesh Movva, Raghunandan K. Pai, Munish K. Poonia, Tommy Rochette, Sam Schaevitz, Yannick L. Sierra, Navin Bindiganavile Suparna, Langford Wasada
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Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause one or more processors of a data processing system to perform operations comprising:
A data processing system comprising:
A method comprising:
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