Automated issuance of SSL certificates

Abstract

A system and process unifies DNS/Naming registration, trusted SSL certificate generation and signing. While installing a product, a customer registers it. This automatically enables the customer to use the DNS/Naming registration service offered by the entity, which automatically assigns a customer specified symbolic name for the product so that it can easily be found on the Internet. This is done simply and inexpensively by piggybacking on one of the domains owned by the entity. Once this happens, a SSL certificate is created and signed based on the subdomain. No verification of the SSL certificate is required, since the subdomain was assigned by the entity and it knows to whom it was assigned.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.