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Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013

Filed:

Jul. 17, 2008
Applicants:

Xin Qiu, San Diego, CA (US);

Eric Sprunk, Carlsbad, CA (US);

Liqiang Chen, San Diego, CA (US);

Jason Pasion, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Xin Qiu, San Diego, CA (US);

Eric Sprunk, Carlsbad, CA (US);

Liqiang Chen, San Diego, CA (US);

Jason Pasion, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system for token-based management of a PKI (public key infrastructure) personalization process includes a token request and management system (TRMS) configured to gather request information from a requestor; and a token personalization system (TPS) configured to personalize a hardware token such that usage of the hardware token is constrained by the request information. A method for token-based management of a PKI personalization process includes: requesting a hardware token; personalizing a hardware token such that the hardware token is confined to operation within limiting parameters; binding the hardware token to a workstation which is configured receive the hardware token and use credentials within the hardware token to request and download PKI data from a PKI server, the workstation being further configured to personalize an end user product by loading the PKI data into internal memory contained within the end user product; and monitoring usage of the hardware token and the PKI data.


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