Granted Patent B2

US 12,494,907 · App. 17/934,832 · Granted Dec 9, 2025

Inventors: William R. Bandy (Gambrills, MD); Michael R. Arneson (Warba, MN)

Assignee: Matrics2, Inc.

H04L9/0869H04L9/0894H04L9/14G06K19/06037H04L9/0891H04L63/083

Abstract

Claims (64)

1 . A method performed by an application executing on a computing device, comprising:

receiving a first globally-unique value of a plurality of globally-unique values via a user interface of an application executing on the computing device, the first globally-unique value, a second globally-unique value of the plurality, and a third globally-unique value of the plurality being physically implemented as a first machine-readable format, a second machine-readable format, and a third machine-readable format, respectively;

providing, via a network, the first globally-unique value and an application identifier associated with the application to a computing system, the computing system configured to determine the second globally-unique value and the third globally-unique value based on the application identifier;

receiving the second globally-unique value via the user interface of the application;

designating the second globally-unique value as a first secure key;

storing the first secure key in a first location of a memory of the computing device allocated for the application;

receiving the third globally-unique value via the user interface of the application; and

designating the third globally-unique value as a buffer key.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first machine-readable format is a first quick response code, wherein the second machine-readable format is a second quick response code, and wherein the third machine-readable format is a third quick response code.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein said receiving the first globally-unique value via the user interface comprises:

capturing the first quick response code via the application; and

decoding the first quick response code to obtain the first globally-unique value;

wherein said receiving the second globally-unique value via the user interface comprises:

capturing the second quick response code via the application, and

decoding the second quick response code to obtain the second globally-unique value; and

wherein said receiving the third globally-unique value via the user interface comprises:

capturing the third quick response code via the application, and

decoding the third quick response code to obtain the third globally-unique value.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

storing the buffer key in a second location of the memory of the computing device allocated for the application.

5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, via the network, a command from the computing system that instructs the application to perform a key flush operation to replace the first secure key stored in the first location of the memory with another secure key; and

replacing the first secure key with the other secure key in accordance with the key flush operation.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein key flush operation comprises:

generating a first encoded key based on at least the buffer key;

receiving, via the network, an encrypted second secure key from the computing system;

decrypting the encrypted second secure key using the first encoded key;

bit shuffling the buffer key based on the decrypted second secure key;

generating a second encoded key based on at least the bit-shuffled buffer key;

receiving, via the network, an encrypted third secure key from the computing system; and

decrypting the encrypted third secure key using the bit-shuffled buffer key.

7 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising:

storing the decrypted third secure key in the first location of the memory, the decrypted third secure key being the other secure key that replaces the first secure key.

8 . A method performed by a computing system, comprising:

generating a plurality of globally-unique values comprising a first globally-unique value, second globally-unique value, and a third globally-unique value;

storing the plurality of globally-unique values in a database of the computing system, each of the plurality of globally-unique values also being physically implemented as a machine-readable format;

associating, in the database, the first globally-unique value with the second globally-unique value and the third globally-unique value;

receiving, via a network, one of the plurality of globally-unique values from an application executing on a computing device that reads the one of the plurality of globally-unique values from the physically-implemented machine-readable format;

designating the second globally-unique value associated with the globally-unique value as a first secure key for the application; and

designating the third globally-unique value associated with the globally-unique value as a buffer key for the application.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein each of the plurality of globally-unique values are randomly-generated values.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the randomly-generated values are generated by a quantum random number generator.

11 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

generating a first encoded key based on at least the buffer key;

generating a second secure key;

sending to the application, via the network, the second secure key encrypted using the first encoded key;

bit shuffling the buffer key based on an unencrypted version of the second secure key;

generating a third secure key;

generating a second encoded key based on the bit-shuffled buffer key and the third secure key;

generating a fourth secure key; and

sending to the application, via the network, the fourth secure key encrypted using the second encoded key.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein generating a second encoded key comprises:

performing a bit-wise XOR operation on the bit-shuffled buffer key and the third secure key.

13 . A system, comprising:

at least one processor circuit; and

at least one memory stores program code that, when executed by the at least one processor circuit, perform operations, the operations comprising:

generating a plurality of globally-unique values comprising a first globally-unique value, second globally-unique value, and a third globally-unique value;

storing the plurality of globally-unique values in a database of the computing system, each of the plurality of globally-unique values also being physically implemented as a machine-readable format;

associating, in the database, the first globally-unique value with the second globally-unique value and the third globally-unique value;

receiving, via a network, one of the plurality of globally-unique values from an application executing on a computing device that reads the one of the plurality of globally-unique values from the physically-implemented machine-readable format;

designating the second globally-unique value associated with the globally-unique value as a first secure key for the application; and

designating the third globally-unique value associated with the globally-unique value as a buffer key for the application.

14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein each of the plurality of globally-unique values are randomly-generated values.

15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the randomly-generated values are generated by a quantum random number generator.

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