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US 2012/0072715 A1Published application
Authorizing Equipment on a Sub-Network
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsLawrence W. Yonge, III, Srinivas Katar, Manjunath A. Krishnam
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Abstract
Systems and methods for authorizing a customer premise equipment (CPE) device to join a network through a network termination unit (NTU). The CPE device can send an encrypted connection request, and an authorization server can decrypt the connection request and provide a network membership key (NMK) associated with the CPE device to the NTU. The authorization server can encrypt the NMK associated with the CPE device using a device access key (DAK) associated with the NTU.
Claims16
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- receiving a forwarded connection request, the forwarded connection request comprising an encrypted connection request received by a network termination unit forwarded to an authorization server;
- inspecting a first unique identifier associated with the forwarded connection request;
- identifying a network membership key associated with the first unique identifier;
- authorizing the forwarded connection request based on the identified network membership key;
- encrypting the network membership key using a device access key associated with the network termination unit;
- and
- communicating the encrypted network membership key to the network termination unit.
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A system comprising:
- a network termination unit configured to receive an encrypted connection request from a customer premise equipment device, wherein the network termination unit is further configured to forward the encrypted connection request if the network termination unit determines that the customer premise equipment device is not associated with the network termination unit;
- an authorization server configured to receive the encrypted connection request from the network termination unit, the authorization server configured to decrypt the encrypted connection request based on a first unique identifier, the first unique identifier being associated with the customer premise equipment device;
- wherein the authorization server is further configured to provide a network membership key associated with the first unique identifier address based on decrypting the encrypted connection request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.