Method for provisioning policy on user devices in wired and wireless networks
AssigneeAvenda Systems, Inc.
InventorsSanthosh Cheeniyil, Krishna Prabhakar
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Abstract
A method for provisioning client devices securely and automatically by means of a network provisioning system is disclosed. Provisioning occurs before the client is granted access to the network. The provisioning is determined dynamically at the time a client connects to the network and may depend on a multitude of factors specified by data dictionaries of the provisioning system.
Claims22
A method of granting network access to a client in a communications network, the method comprising:
- receiving information from the client for determining a network access policy decision;
- routing the information from the client to an authentication server through a network access device;
- provisioning access to the network to the client;
- sending information containing the provisioning access via a secure and authenticated channel to the client;
- and
- pushing the network access policy for the client from the authentication server to the client.
A computer readable medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a machine to perform a method to grant access to a client in a communication network, the method comprising:
- receiving information from the client for determining a network access policy decision;
- routing the information from the client to an authentication server through a network access device;
- provisioning access to the network to the client;
- sending information containing the provisioning access via a secure and authenticated channel to the client;
- and
- pushing the network access policy for the client from the authentication serve to the client.
A system to grant network access to a client in a communications network, the system comprising:
- an authentication server adapted to couple to the network and configured to receive information from one or more client device and grant provisioning access to the one or more clients to the network;
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- a network access device configured to be in communication with the authentication server and form an encryption tunnel adapted to accept the one or more client devices.
A system for granting network access to a client in a communications network, the system comprising:
- an authentication means for:
- coupling to the network;
- receiving information from one or more client device;
- and
- granting provisioning access to the one or more clients to the network;
- and
- a network access means for forming an encryption tunnel adapted to accept the one or more client devices and providing communications between the authentication means and the one or more client devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.