TORONTO, ON. March 17, 2007 – Universal Data Protection Corporation (UDPi) now has patents pending for secure device communication and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications.

With the new pending patents, UDPi hopes to improve system security for the automobile market, home theatre systems, computer systems comprised of a number of peripherals, as well as other systems comprised of popular theft items.
In typical systems, such as home entertainment systems, the components send unencrypted signals and are in no way tied to the other components in the system. When the system is setup in secure communication mode with UDPi, all communication is encoded and the components can only communicate with other devices in the system.

The peer-to-peer (P2P) application of UDPi improves on current methods because each receiver has a unique key and this key is sent through a secure channel, rather than over transmission lines, where line sniffing can occur.

According to UDPi, this new technology is beneficial because it reduces the risk of component thefts, since the components will not work in other systems once they have been incorporated into an existing UDPi-secured system.