Information security – Access control or authentication – Network
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-22
2010-11-09
Revak, Christopher A (Department: 2431)
Information security
Access control or authentication
Network
C713S156000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07831997
ABSTRACT:
A provisioning method and mechanism for computer systems having embedded network devices. After an initial boot-up of a computer platform, an out-of-band (OOB) controller automatically connects to a corporate DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server to obtain an IP (Internet Protocol) address and a domain name in which the computer platform is running. The domain name is concatenated with a pre-defined host name to obtain a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) for a provisioning server. The OOB controller then establishes a TCP connection to the provisioning server. A server certificate chain received from the provisioning server is validated. An attempt to login to the provisioning server is made. If corporate security policy dictates granting access to the computer platform, then provisioning configuration data is received over a secure and encrypted channel.
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Eldar Avigdor
Valenci Moshe
Almamun Abdullah
Garrett IP, LLC
Intel Corporation
Revak Christopher A
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