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Node unregisterable without user account at remote site

  • US 9,401,950 B2
  • Filed: 09/17/2015
  • Issued: 07/26/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A node disposed at a location remote from a remote site, the node being associated with a user and comprising:

  • processing components;

    communication components for enabling communication; and

    software that is configured to be executable by the processing components of the node that is disposed at the location remote from the remote site, wherein the software is configured to facilitate, at least in part, registration of the node at the remote site, wherein the remote site is;

    communicatively coupled to a communications network and capable of communication via the communications network, configured to maintain a plurality of node identifiers including a node identifier that identifies the node that is disposed at the location remote from the remote site, configured to maintain a plurality of user accounts including a user account that is associated with the user, and configured to register the node at the remote site including associating the node identifier that identifies the node that is disposed at the location remote from the remote site with the user account that is associated with the user;

    wherein the user account must be created at the remote site before the node can be registered at the remote site.

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