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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 03, 2015
Applicant:

Cloudpath Networks, Inc., Wesminster, CO (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Lee Koster, Westminster, CO (US);

Roger Lynn Haney, Denver, CO (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/51 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/33 (2013.01); G06F 21/34 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0823 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/33 (2013.01); G06F 21/34 (2013.01); G06F 21/51 (2013.01); H04L 9/3263 (2013.01); H04L 63/0815 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a system and method for providing a certificate, and more specifically a certificate for network access upon a second system. The method includes, identifying a first system having at least one processor and a plurality of users, each user having at least one attribute; receiving from a third party at least one required attribute for certificate based network access; receiving from a user known to the first system a request for certificate based network layer network access to a second system having at least one processor, the request having at least one identifier; querying the first system with the at least one identifier for attributes associated with the user requesting the certificate based network layer network access to a second system; evaluating the attributes associated with the user requesting the certificate to the at least one predefined attribute; and in response to at least one attribute associated with the user requesting the certificate correlating to the at least one predefined attribute, providing from a system other than the first system, as requested by the user a certificate with at least one characteristic for certificate based network layer network access on the second system, the second system distinct from the first system. An associated system for providing a Certificate is also provided.


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