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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerry White, Tyngsboro, MA (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/214 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/214 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing message authentication between a first device (such as a provisioning server) and a plurality of other devices (such as cable modems) without need to share a secret key between the first device and the plurality of second devices.