System and Method for Machine-to-Machine Privacy and Security Brokered Transactions
AssigneeMobile Search Security LLC
InventorsPatrick F.X. Mulhearn, Francis J. Hearn, JR.
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Abstract
A machine-to-machine secure messaging system permits a first machine to send a message to a second machine, despite not knowing the addressing information (e.g., telephone number, IP address or other identifier) associated with the second machine. The system comprises an intermediary server with access to a database with information linking addressing information with other information related to the device, e.g., owner name, operator name and job title, etc., and facilitates a secure communication without the need for either party to the communication to know the other party's addressing information.
Claims25
1-23. (canceled)
A method of sending a message from a first machine to a second machine, the second machine having second machine addressing information unknown to the first machine, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) storing in a database an association between sender information relating to the identity of the first machine and recipient information relating to the second machine, the database containing, for a plurality of machines, machine characteristic information, machine addressing information, and a security rule for each second machine;
- b) without user action, composing the message based on a conditional rule, at the first machine, the message comprising the sender information and the recipient information, but not including second machine addressing information and not including recipient addressing information, and a message payload;
- c) transmitting the message via a first private network to an intermediary server, the intermediary server in communication with the database;
- d) authenticating the sender information relating to the identity of the first machine at the intermediary server;
- e) querying the database and comparing the recipient information to the machine characteristic information to identify the second machine;
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- f) transmitting the message payload to the identified second machine via a second private network, wherein the message payload is transmitted according to the security rule associated with the second machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.