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US 2019/0245704 A1Published application
Template based credential provisioning
AssigneeCable Television Laboratories, Inc.
InventorMassimiliano Pala
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Abstract
A certificate re-provisioning (CREP) protocol allows a client device to communicate with a provisioning server and be automatically provisioned, or re-provisioned, with needed credentials without the client device being aware of which credentials it needs. The CREP protocol uses a slot configuration template that defines which credentials are installed on the client device and the provisioning server responds with actions to provision the client device according to a client target configuration stored at the server.
Claims16
A certificate provisioning method, comprising:
- receiving, within a provisioning server and from a client device, a request message including a client identifier and a slot configuration template defining a current configuration of credentials on the client device;
- retrieving a client target configuration from a configuration database based upon the client identifier;
- determining differences between the current configuration and the client target configuration;
- generating, based upon the differences, an action item set to include at least one action item for provisioning the client device;
- generating a response message including a first action item of the action item set;
- and
- sending the response message to the client device.
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A certificate provisioning method, comprising:
- generating, within a client device, a request message including a client identifier and a slot configuration template defining a current configuration of credentials on the client device;
- sending the request message to a provisioning server;
- receiving, from the provisioning server, a response message including an action;
- performing the action on the client device;
- updating the request message to include a result of the action on the client device;
- and
- sending the updated request message to the provisioning server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.