US Patent 12028709 Remote triggering of events by personal devices

A subscriber device may perform a key exchange with a network operation center (NOC) computing device to receive a secret key. A list of group identifiers of personal devices for which the subscriber device is to handle events may be received at the subscriber device. The subscriber device may receive an encrypted event packet from a personal device via a direct communication connection. The subscriber device may decrypt the encrypted event packet at the subscriber device using the secret key to generate a decrypted event packet and extract a group identifier from the decrypted event packet. In response to determining that the group identifier is included in the list of group identifiers received from the NOC computing device, an event handler of a plurality of handlers stored in the subscriber device that corresponds to an event included in the decrypted event packet may be identified to handle the event.