Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Embedded authentication in a service provider network
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Application No.: US14851228Application Date: 2015-09-11
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Publication No.: US10805291B2Publication Date: 2020-10-13
- Inventor: Yiu Leung Lee
- Applicant: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Applicant Address: US PA Philadelphia
- Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Current Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Philadelphia
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04N21/45 ; H04N21/258 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L12/28

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described for extending the trust relationship established with a network interface device that provides access to a service provider network that includes an IP-based overlay network. The trust relationship is extended to a consumer premises equipment (CPE) device operating on the overlay network. A network element of the service provider network may authenticate the CPE device when communicating via the overlay network. The service provider network may store an association between network configuration data of the network interface device and the CPE device provisioned via the network interface device and may provide the CPE device with an identity token that encodes this network configuration data. The CPE device may provide the identity token to a network element of the service provider network, and the service provider network may authenticate the identity of the CPE device using the identity token provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170078285A1 Embedded Authentication in a Service Provider Network Public/Granted day:2017-03-16
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