Integrity Security Services LLC

Daniel R Fynaardt

William Lundy Lattin

Alan T Meyer

Gregory A Powell

The system for provisioning computerized devices of a tenant includes an enrollment certificate authority generating enrollment certificates in response to first provisioning requests for the enrollment certificates, a second certificate authority generating digital assets for onboard units and roadside units of the tenant in response to second provisioning requests from the computerized devices. A security credential management system platform, connected to the enrollment certificate authority and to the second certificate authority, receiving the first provisioning requests for enrollment certificates for the computerized devices, routing the first provisioning requests to the enrollment certificate authority based on the tenant identification (ID), receiving the second provisioning requests for digital assets for the computerized devices, and routing the second provisioning requests to the second certificate authority based on the device identifier. Each first provisioning request includes the tenant ID, and each second provisioning request includes a device identifier.

Systems, methods, and devices for multi-stage provisioning and multi-tenant operation for a security credential management system

A system for securely provisioning a plurality of computerized devices of a tenant, is provided. The system includes a processor, and a computer storage medium including instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving provisioning requests from the plurality of computerized devices needing certificates, each provisioning request indicating a tenant identifier identifying the tenant, and transmitting the provisioning requests to a set of security credential management system backend components based on the tenant identifier. The set of SCMS backend components includes enrollment certificate authorities operable to generate enrollment certificates, each provisioning request being transmitted to one of the one or more enrollment certificate authorities based on the tenant identifier of each provisioning request, and a pseudonym certificate authority operable to generate digital assets in response to receiving a provisioning request.

A system for providing quality of service (QoS) levels to clients requesting credentials from a credential management service is provided. The system includes an application programming interface (API) operable to receive credential requests from each of a plurality of clients, each credential request including a client identifier, and a QoS manager operable to: distribute the credential requests to a corresponding client queue of a plurality of client queues based on the client identifier, select a credential request distributed to the plurality of client queues based on a selection scheme, and transmit the selected credential request to a QoS queue of the credential management service for processing.

Providing quality of service for certificate management systems

A system for securely provisioning a plurality of computerized devices of a tenant, is provided. The system includes a processor, and a computer storage medium including instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving provisioning requests from r the plurality of computerized devices needing certificates, each provisioning request indicating a tenant identifier identifying the tenant, and transmitting the provisioning requests to a set of security credential management system backend components based on the tenant identifier. The set of SCMS backend components includes enrollment certificate authorities operable to generate enrollment certificates, each provisioning request being transmitted to one of the one or more enrollment certificate authorities based on the tenant identifier of each provisioning request, and a pseudonym certificate authority operable to generate digital assets in response to receiving a provisioning request.

A system can include a certificate application programming interface (API) device that is operable to receive, via an application programming interface (API), an enrollment request for the at least one computerized device. The certificate API device can also generate, via the API, an enrollment package and an end entity certificate package for the at least one computerized device by obtaining the enrollment package and the end entity certificate package from a certificate management service (CMS). The certificate API device can also transmit, via the API, the enrollment package and the end entity certificate package to the at least one computerized device. The system can also include the CMS that is operable to provide the enrollment package and the end entity certificate package to the certificate API device.

Application programming interface for certificate management systems

A system for providing quality of service (QoS) levels to clients requesting certificates from a certificate management service is provided. The system includes an application programming interface (API) operable to receive certificate requests from each of a plurality of clients, each certificate request including a client identifier, a QoS manager operable to distribute the certificate requests to a corresponding client queue of a plurality of client queues based on the client identifier, select, based on at least one of a workflow and a client priority level, one or more of the certificate requests distributed to the plurality of client queues, and transmit the selected one or more certificate requests to a QoS queue of the certificate management service for processing.

A system for provisioning computerized devices of a plurality of tenants is provided. The system includes a security credential management system (SCMS) host connected to the devices and that is operable to receive provisioning requests from respective ones of the devices needing certificates, each provisioning request indicating a tenant identifier uniquely identifying a tenant, at least one registration authority that is communicatively connected to the SCMS host and transmits the provisioning requests to SCMS backend components based on the tenant identifier of each provisioning request. The SCMS backend components includes a plurality of enrollment certificate authorities operable to generate the enrollment certificates in response to the provisioning requests, each provisioning request being transmitted to one of the plurality of enrollment certificate authorities based on the tenant identifier of each provisioning request, and a pseudonym certificate authority operable to generate pseudonym certificates in response to provisioning requests for pseudonym certificates.

Systems, methods, and devices for securely provisioning a roadside unit (RSU) that includes an application certificate, wherein the RSU is geographically restricted according to the application certificate. An enhanced SCMS system may receive a request for an application certificate for the RSU; determine, in response to the request, an operating geolocation for the RSU; verify that the operating geolocation is within the allowed geo-region for the RSU; generate an application certificate that includes the operating geolocation; and provide the application certificate to the RSU device. Also provided is an application certificate that includes precise operating geolocation information, an improved application certificate provisioning request that allows the requestor to specify a precise operating geolocation, new processes for generating and providing improved application certificates having geographic-restriction information, an enhanced SCMS that performs the processes, and improved computerized devices, such as RSUs, that employ the precise, operating geolocation information from the application certificates.

Systems, methods, and devices for provisioning and processing geolocation information for computerized devices

An example system receives certificate requests from clients. Each request can indicate a number of computerized devices needing certificates; a timestamp indicating when the request was transmitted; and a client identifier. The system includes a Quality of Service (QoS) manager that: distributes the requests from the clients across client queues, each of the client queues corresponding to a particular client; and divides requests into smaller subgroups of entries corresponding to a subset of the computerized devices needing certificates. The system can also transmit retrieved entries from the client queues to a certificate management service.

An example system for securely provisioning computerized devices of a plurality of tenants includes a Security Credential Management System (SCMS) host that is communicatively connected to the devices and is operable to receive provisioning requests from computerized devices needing certificates. Each provisioning request indicates a tenant identifier (ID) uniquely identifying a tenant of the plurality of tenants. The system also includes a registration authority communicatively connected to the SCMS host and operable to transmit requests to SCMS backend components. The backend components include a set of independent enrollment certificate authorities operable to generate enrollment certificates in response to receiving requests for enrollment certificates from the devices, each provisioning request being transmitted to one of the enrollment certificate authorities based on the tenant identifier of each provisioning request; and a pseudonym certificate authority operable to generate pseudonym certificates responsive to receiving requests for pseudonym certificates from the virtual registration authority.

Systems, methods, and devices for provisioning and processing geolocation information for V2X devices

An example system for securely provisioning computerized devices of a plurality of tenants includes a Security Credential Management System (SCMS) host that is communicatively connected to the devices and is operable to receive provisioning requests from computerized devices needing certificates. Each provisioning request indicates a tenant identifier (ID) uniquely identifying a tenant of the plurality of tenants. The system also includes a virtual registration authority communicatively connected to the SCMS host and operable to transmit requests to SCMS backend components. The backend components include an enrollment certificate authority operable to generate enrollment certificates in response to receiving requests for enrollment certificates from the virtual registration authority; first and second linkage authorities operable to generate linkage values responsive to receiving requests for linkage values from the virtual registration authority; and a pseudonym certificate authority operable to generate pseudonym certificates responsive to receiving requests for pseudonym certificates from the virtual registration authority.

An example system receives certificate requests from clients. Each request indicates: a number of computerized devices needing certificates; a timestamp indicating when the request was transmitted; and a client. The system includes a Quality of Service (QoS) manager that: distributes the requests from the clients across client queues, each of the client queues corresponding to a particular client; and divides requests into smaller subgroups of entries corresponding to a subset of the computerized devices needing certificates. It also includes a QoS arbiter that selects a sequence of entries from the client queues to be placed onto a QoS queue based on a number of entries in the QoS queue, a latency level of a certificate management service, and timestamps indicating when requests were transmitted, where the QoS manager retrieves entries from the QoS queue in the sequence selected by the QoS arbiter and transmits them to the certificate management service.

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Daniel R Fynaardt