Computing device
AssigneeNicoventures Trading Limited
InventorScott George Boham
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Abstract
A computing device is configured to receive an image containing a code associated with a consumable of an aerosol provision system. The computing device reads the code to generate consumable data and a digital signature. The computing device validates the digital signature using a public key of a key pair, and determines whether to approve the consumable based on the consumable data in response to the digital signature being validated.
Claims20
A computing device configured to:
- capture, using a camera on the computing device, an image containing a code associated with a consumable of an aerosol provision system, wherein the aerosol provision system comprises the consumable and an aerosol provision device;
- read and decode the code to obtain consumable data and a digital signature;
- validate the digital signature using a public key of a key pair comprising the public key and a private key, wherein the public key is stored on the computing device;
- determine whether to approve the consumable based on the consumable data in response to the digital signature being validated;
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- send an instruction to the aerosol provision device in response to the determining to approve the consumable, wherein the instruction comprises an enabling of an aerosol generator of the aerosol provision system when the consumable is determined to be approved, and
- wherein the computing device is separate from the aerosol provision system.
A method of approving a consumable of an aerosol provision system comprising the consumable and an aerosol provision device, the method comprising:
- capturing, using a camera of a computing device, an image containing a code associated with the consumable;
- reading and decoding, by the computing device, the code to obtain consumable data and a digital signature;
- validating by the computing device, the digital signature using a public key of a key pair comprising the public key and a private key, wherein the public key is stored on the computing device;
- determining by the computing device, whether to approve the consumable based on the consumable data in response to the digital signature being validated;
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- sending by the computing device, an instruction to the aerosol provision device in response to the determining to approve the consumable, wherein the instruction comprises an enabling of an aerosol generator of the aerosol provision system when the consumable is determined to be approved, and
- wherein the computing device is separate from the aerosol provision system.
A computer readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor of a computing device, performs a method of approving a consumable of an aerosol provision system comprising the consumable and an aerosol provision device, the method comprising:
- capturing, using a camera of the computing device an image containing a code associated with the consumable;
- reading and decoding the code to obtain consumable data and a digital signature;
- validating the digital signature using a public key of a key pair comprising the public key and a private key, wherein the public key is stored on the computing device;
- determining whether to approve the consumable based on the consumable data in response to the digital signature being validated;
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- sending an instruction to the aerosol provision device in response to the determining to approve the consumable, wherein the instruction comprises an enabling of an aerosol generator of the aerosol provision system when the consumable is determined to be approved, and
- wherein the computing device is separate from the aerosol provision system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.