Systems and methods for secure certificate management
AssigneeCable Television Laboratories, Inc.
InventorBrian A. Scriber
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Abstract
A method for managing certificates includes the steps of transmitting, over an electronic network by an electronic device of a client, a certificate request to a certificate management portal separate from the client, establishing an interaction with an electronic interface of a certificate authority by the certificate management portal; generating, by the certificate authority, a certificate package, delivering the generated certificate package to the certificate management portal, and downloading from the certificate management portal, by the client, at least one certificate of the delivered certificate package.
Claims18
A certificate management system for managing certificates issued by a certificate authority (CA) to a client, comprising:
- a certificate management portal configured to:
- (i) receive, over an electronic network, a certificate request from an electronic device of the client;
- (ii) establish, after receipt of the certificate request, an interaction with an electronic interface of the CA;
- (iii) transmit, through the electronic interface, the certificate request to the CA;
- (iv) receive, from the CA through the electronic interface, an aggregated certificate package generated according to the certificate request;
- and
- (v) enable the electronic device of the client to download at least one certificate of the delivered aggregate certificate package directly from the CA.
A certificate management ecosystem for managing certificate certificates issued over a computer network, comprising:
- a certificate management portal;
- an electronic device of a client in electronic communication with the certificate management portal;
- and
- a plurality of certificate authorities (CAs) each having a respective electronic interface in electronic communication with the certificate management portal, each of the plurality of CAs being configured to issue one or more certificates to at least one client of the ecosystem,
- wherein the certificate management portal is configured to forward certificate requests from the at least one client to at least one CA of the plurality of CAs, receive an aggregated certificate package from the at least one CA that is generated by the at least one CA according to the forwarded certificate request, and enable an electronic device of the at least one client to download at least one certificate of the aggregated certificate package.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.