US Patent No: 7,778,422

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Abstract

Generating symmetric keys among distributed appliances, includes generating public and private values on at least one appliance, importing a public value from another appliance via an out-of-band entity, and generating a secret value as a function of the private value corresponding to the local appliance and the public value received from the other appliance.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
MICROSOFT CORPORATIONREDMOND, WA24226

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Aboba, Bernard Bellevue, WA 12 18
Freeman, Trevor W Sammamish, WA 19 128
Moore, Tim Naperville, IL 28 88

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