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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Manoj Kumar Kushwaha, Karnataka, IN;
Scott Taft Potter, Stratford, CT (US);
David Scott Mccowan, Cary, NC (US);
Shailendra Bhargava, San Ramon, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to techniques for bootstrapping and certificate management of Internet of Things (IoT) devices using a zero-touch deployment (ZTD) service. In one aspect, a method of managing Internet of Thing (IoT) devices includes receiving, at an IoT management component, a bootstrapping request from an IoT device, the request including location information of the IoT device; receiving, from a controller, credential information for the IoT device; generating a policy for bootstrapping the IoT device based at least on the location information and the credential information; and sending the policy to the IoT device for the IoT device to complete the bootstrapping.