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US 2019/0253433 A1Published application
Method, system and apparatus for granting location-based credentials to a device
OwnerJean-Claude SACHOTinventor
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A salient idea is to rely on the fact that a device at some point needs to be powered from an in-home power distribution network and that such a power distribution network, because of its fixed wired nature, may be used to uniquely identify and locate the power delivery point that a given device is powered from, and, by extension, where the device is located. It is proposed to create and leverage a unique identifier source, the signal of which is carried across a power distribution network (typically a domestic power installation). The source may be associated with the power meter of the customer premise, the location and unique identifier of this power meter are known by e.g. the utility provider. While being powered, a device receives this signal source carrying the unique identifier, which is representative of the customer location. The received identifier is further used in granting or denying access to services for that device, depending on whether it matches or not an identifier representative of the intended usage location.
A method comprising:
A method comprising:
A device comprising at least one processor configured to:
A server comprising at least one processor configured to:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising program code instructions executable by a processor for:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.