Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for secure automated network attachment
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Application No.: US15419853Application Date: 2017-01-30
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Publication No.: US10356081B2Publication Date: 2019-07-16
- Inventor: Ralph William Brown , Bernard McKibben , Stuart Hoggan , Brian Alexander Scriber
- Applicant: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC
- Applicant Address: US CO Louisville
- Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Louisville
- Agency: Armstrong Teasdale LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W76/10 ; H04W84/12 ; G06F19/00

Abstract:
A method for automatically attaching a purpose-built electronic device to a provider network includes steps of discovering, by a Wi-Fi module of the purpose-built electronic device, a wireless data network in operable communication with the provider network selecting, by the Wi-Fi module, the wireless data network, transmitting a primary authentication certificate from the Wi-Fi module to an authentication, authorization, and accounting server of the provider network, receiving, by an application server of the provider network, a secondary authentication certificate from a functionality module of the purpose-built electronic device authenticating, by the provider network, the primary and secondary authentication certificates, and attaching the purpose-built device to the provider network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170223013A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE AUTOMATED NETWORK ATTACHMENT Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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