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US 8,745,398 B2Granted
Providing services to devices using a ZigBee network
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsPeter Jayaprathap Swamidas, Soms Wongbar, Vamshi K. Gillipalli, John P. Valdez
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Abstract
A network device may receive two different sets of authentication information from a user device over a ZigBee network. The network device may authenticate the user device based on the received two different sets of authentication information and permit, in response to authenticating the user device, the user device to obtain a service by exchanging information between the network device and the user device over the ZigBee network.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a ZigBee coordinator of a network device and from a ZigBee sensor of another device, a watermark image associated with a vendor,
- the vendor being associated with the other device;
- authenticating, by the network device, the vendor of the other device by validating the watermark image associated with the vendor;
- transmitting, by the network device and based on the authenticating the vendor of the other device by validating the watermark image associated with the vendor, first information, to the Zigbee sensor of the other device, indicating that the watermark image associated with the vendor is validated;
- receiving, by the ZigBee coordinator of the network device and from the ZigBee sensor of the other device, a watermark image associated with a product related to the other device and provided by the vendor;
- authenticating, by the network device, the other device by validating the watermark image associated with the product;
- transmitting, by the network device and based on the authenticating the other device by validating the watermark image associated with the product, second information, to the Zigbee sensor of the other device, indicating that the watermark image associated with the product is validated;
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- authorizing, by the network device, a service for the other device, over a ZigBee network when the watermark image associated with the vendor and the watermark image associated with the product have been successfully validated.
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A network device comprising:
- a memory to:
- store first validation information for validating a vendor, the vendor being associated with a user device, and
- store second validation information for validating the user device;
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- a processor to:
- receive a first watermark image, corresponding to the vendor, from a ZigBee sensor that is associated with the user device,
- validate the vendor based on the first watermark image and using the first validation information,
- transmit first information to the user device indicating that the vendor is validated;
- receive a second watermark image, corresponding to the user device, from the ZigBee sensor,
- validate the user device based on the second watermark image and using the second validation information,
- transmit second information to the user device indicating that the user device is validated, and
- permit a service to be provided to the user device when the vendor has been successfully validated and when the user device has been successfully validated.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
- one or more instructions, which, when executed by a processor of a wireless device, cause the processor to:
- receive, from a user device, a first set of authentication information and a second set of authentication information,
- the first set of authentication information associated with a vendor associated with the user device, and
- the second set of authentication information associated with a product related to the user device and provided by the vendor;
- authenticate the user device based on the first set of authentication information by validating a watermark image associated with the vendor;
- transmit, based on the validating the watermark image associated with the vendor, first information, to the user device, indicating that the watermark image associated with the vendor is validated;
- authenticate the user device based on the second set of authentication information by validating a watermark image associated with the product;
- transmit, based on the validating the watermark image associated with the product, second information, to the user device, indicating that the watermark image associated with the product is validated;
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- permit, based on authenticating the user device based on the first set of authentication information and the second set of authentication information, the user device to obtain a service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.