Patent ID: 7941833

Claim:
A first device storing instructions which, when executed, perform a method comprising: launching a registration process, the launching beginning a predetermined time interval within which the registration process is to be launched on a second device, the first device and the second device each having a registration trigger; transmitting registration information to the second device; receiving registration information from the second device; generating a secret, without knowledge prior to launching the registration process of information associated with the second device, the generation of the secret enabling authenticated communications between the first device and the second device; transmitting an acknowledgement to the second device; receiving an acknowledgement from the second device, the receipt of the acknowledgement assuring that the secret is shared with the second device; monitoring the registration process for registration communications emitting from a third device; completing the registration process if no registration communications emitting from a third device are detected; and not completing the registration process if any registration communications from a third device are detected.