公开(公告)号：US12199973B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US17743308

申请日：2022-05-12

Applicant: ITRON, INC.

Inventor： Connie Bradbury ,  Benjamin N. Damm ,  Aaron Glasenapp ,  Thomas J. Barbour ,  Donald Lloyd Reeves, III

IPC: H04L9/40

Abstract: Various embodiments set forth a method comprising validating, by a first computing system in a secured computing environment, a demand event generated by an operator, where the operator is authenticated to generate demand events within the secured computing environment and the demand event corresponds to a set of endpoints operating outside the secured computing environment, generating, by the first computing system, an authorization permit associated with the demand event, and sending, from the first computing system to a second computing system outside of the secured computing environment, (i) an indicator of the demand event, and (ii) the authorization permit, where the demand event is usable by the second computing system to generate a demand event command for the set of endpoints, and the authorization permit is usable by the set of endpoints to validate the demand event command.

公开(公告)号：US20240414533A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18439613

申请日：2024-02-12

Applicant: Itron, Inc.

Inventor： Benjamin N. Damm ,  Eric Donald White ,  Tommi Petteri Parkkila

IPC: H04W12/069 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W12/106 ,  H04W12/76 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: Techniques are provided for ad-hoc authenticated group discovery and data sharing in a mesh network. A group of devices is created without leaving a security gap due to the open communication needed to establish the discovery of the devices forming the group. The group can be authenticated autonomously following network discovery of the devices. Instead of requiring global pre-assigned keys for authentication, the devices in the group are authenticated with signatures and certificate passing thereby providing strong security. The efficiency of data sharing between the devices of the network, such as a mesh network, can also be increased. One or more devices may act as a bridge device between devices of a same group that are not in direct wireless communication with each other to reduce re-broadcasts within the mesh network.