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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2023
Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);
Matthew Maher, St. Charles, MO (US);
George Mcfalls, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Michael Chan, Auburndale, FL (US);
Craig Foucher, Flat Rock, MI (US);
Darren Behmlander, White Lake, MI (US);
Michael Miller, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to installing a security certificate. A method may include identifying, by a network provisioning abstraction layer (NPAL) of a network provisioning system, a digital certificate file received from a certificate management system (CMS); identifying a session boarder controller (SBC) that supports transport layer security (TLS); uploading the digital certificate file to the identified SBC; installing a remote certificate at the identified SBC; enabling the remote certificate at the identified SBC; and sending, based on enabling the remote certificate at the identified SBC, a notification to the CMS indicating that a remote certificate has been installed at the identified SBC.