System and method for provisioning devices using RFID
AssigneeFuturewei Technologies, Inc.
InventorToerless Eckert
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Abstract
A system and method for provisioning secure devices onto a network are provided. The system includes a voucher server configured to provide a vouchers to a logistics device, and a secure pledge device associated with an RFID (Radio Frequency Identifier) chip, wherein the RFID chip comprises the voucher obtained from the voucher server and written to the RFID chip by the logistics device and the voucher is used for provisioning the pledge device to a customer network.
Claims16
A method of provisioning secure pledge devices, comprising:
- sending a request to a voucher server, the request including customer identification;
- receiving a voucher generated by the voucher server in response to the request, wherein the voucher includes logistics information based on the customer identification and identifying information of a pledge device;
- and
- writing the voucher to a Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) chip associated with the pledge device, wherein the voucher is stored in the RFID chip of the pledge device and authenticates the pledge device to thereby provision the pledge device identified by the identifying information to operate on a network of the customer that is identifiable using the customer identification without requiring a connection outside of the network of the customer.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer instructions for provisioning secure pledge devices, that when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:
- sending a request to a voucher server, the request including customer identification;
- receiving a voucher generated by the voucher server in response to the request, wherein the voucher includes logistics information based on the customer identification and identifying information of a pledge device;
- and
- writing the voucher to a Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) chip associated with the pledge device, wherein the voucher is stored in the RFID chip of the pledge device and authenticates the pledge device to thereby provision the pledge device identified by the identifying information to operate on a network of the customer that is identifiable using the customer identification without requiring a connection outside of the network of the customer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.