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US 10,313,308 B2Granted
Communicating with a device
AssigneeVodafone IP Licensing Limited
InventorNick Bone
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatuses configured for identifying a server instance in communications between an entity and a bootstrapping server. In particular, the method comprises the step of sending a data communication between the entity and the bootstrapping server, wherein the data comprises a pointer to the server instance.
Claims21
A method for communicating with a bootstrapping server that implements functionality for a bootstrapping process for establishing secure communications within in a distributed system, the method comprising:
- setting a pointer to a server instance among two or more instances in the distributed system that is used in the bootstrapping process;
- sending a data communication that includes data comprising the pointer to the server instance between an entity configured to communicate with the bootstrapping server via an interface and the bootstrapping server;
- and
- using the pointer to identify the server instance.
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