Network security systems and methods
AssigneeIntertrust Technologies Corporation
InventorsDavid P. Maher, Gilles Boccon-Gibod
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Abstract
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing connected devices and associated network connections. In certain embodiments, trust, privacy, safety, and/or security of information communicated between connected devices may be established in part through use of security associations and/or shared group tokens. In some embodiments, these security associations may be used to form an explicit private network associated with the user. A user may add and/or manage devices included in the explicit private network through management of various security associations associated with the network's constituent devices.
Claims18
A method of managing operation of a group of connected devices, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a gateway device from a first connected device, a request to perform a composite service by the group of connected devices, the group of connected devices comprising a plurality of second connected devices, the request comprising an indication of the requested composite service and at least a subset of group token information associated with each device of the plurality of second connected devices;
- authenticating the received request to perform the composite service by the group of connected devices;
- determining, by the gateway device, based, at least in part, on state information associated with at least a subset of the plurality of second connected devices, that the gateway device may initiate performance of the composite service by the plurality of second connected devices in accordance with the request;
- generating, by the gateway device based on the determination, one or more command messages configured to control the operation of one or more devices of the plurality of second connected devices to perform the composite service;
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- transmitting, by the gateway device, the one or more command messages to the one or more devices of the plurality of second connected devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.