System and Method for Secured Communications by Embedded Platforms

• US 20100325703A1
• Filed: 06/10/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Device Authority Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Device Authority Ltd.
• Inventors: Etchegoyen, Craig Stephen
• Application Number:
  US12/813,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20100325703A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/5
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 Virtual private networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/086 using security domains
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/088 using filters or firewalls

Abstract

A method for ensuring secured communications for embedded platforms includes steps for receiving a device identifier at an authenticating server over a public network from an extended trust device, the authenticating server being communicatively coupled between a secured server and the public network and the device identifier derived from a plurality of machine parameters resident on the extended trust device, accessing a database of authorized device identifiers corresponding to known extended trust devices, and establishing, in response to the device identifier matching one of the authorized device identifiers, a secure private network between the extended trust device and the secured server. The machine parameters may be a combination of a user-configurable parameter and a non-user-configurable parameter. The method may be embodied as a series of process steps stored on a computer readable medium executable by a processor.

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