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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2016
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);
Josh Powers, Pullman, WA (US);
Tristan Lloyd Mullis, Pullman, WA (US);
Jason A. Dearien, Moscow, ID (US);
Michael Dylan Cone, Pullman, WA (US);
Coby Soss, Pullman, WA (US);
Barry Jakob Grussling, Pullman, WA (US);
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for establishing trust relationships between a software defined network (SDN) controller and a SDN communication device. In one embodiment, a SDN controller may comprise a communications interface configured to communicate with a plurality of SDN network devices. A commissioning subsystem configured to detect a new device associated with the SDN. In response to a new device, a user interface subsystem may be configured to receive a user approval to commission the new device. A trust subsystem configured to establish a first SDN controller trusted credential and to transmit a first device trusted credential based on the first SDN controller credential to the new device. Programming instructions to the new device authenticated using the first SDN controller trusted credential by a SDN programming subsystem.