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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2022
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Darshak Thakore, Broomfield, CO (US);
John C. Bahr, Superior, CO (US);
Craig M. Pratt, Portland, OR (US);
Carey Sonsino, Golden, CO (US);
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A method for supporting a plurality of passwords in a communication network includes (a) receiving a client authentication message generated by a network client wishing to connect to the communication network, (b) computing a respective password authentication message for at least one password of a plurality of passwords stored in a password database to generate a set of one or more password authentication messages, each password of the plurality of passwords being a password for the communication network, (c) identifying a password authentication message of the set of one or more password authentication messages that matches the client authentication message, and (d) associating, with the network client, metadata corresponding to a password of the password database used to compute the password authentication message that matches the client authentication message.