Keysight Technologies, Inc.

Keith Charles Thompson

Joseph Eugene Mueller

Steven Paul Goldstein

A method for providing a distributed infrastructure, the method comprising: at a main distributed infrastructure controller (MDIC): sending one or more broadcast or advertisement messages via one or more mechanisms for notifying a client or a sub distributed infrastructure controller (SDIC); initiating an authentication service for authorizing and authenticating incoming connection requests from the client or the SDIC; receiving a connection request from the client or the SDIC; authenticating, using credentials and the authentication service, the connection request, wherein the authentication service generates or obtains an authentication token usable for secure communications; and providing the authentication token to the client or the SDIC.

Methods, systems and computer readable media for providing a distributed infrastructure

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A system and method are provided for implementing a secure configuration of a networked system for secure communications, the networked system including at least one instrument for performing corresponding tasks and at least one controller for controlling functions of the at least one instrument. The method includes providing a secure instrument configuration (SIC); displaying status provided by the SIC server identifying the controller and the instruments to a user via a user interface; writing controller secure configuration information from the SIC server to the controller through a software agent on the controller, the controller secure configuration information including authentication data for the instruments, and/or credentials of the one controller acceptable by the one instruments for identifying the controller; and communicating with the controller to initiate implementation of the secure configuration. The controller establishes a secure connection with the instruments using the controller secure configuration information.

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Keith Charles Thompson