US 12,192,203 B2
Security lifecycle management of devices in a communications network
Vinod Kumar Choyi, Conshohocken, PA (US); Chonggang Wang, Princeton, NJ (US); and Dale N. Seed, Allentown, PA (US)
Assigned to Convida Wireless, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed by Convida Wireless, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/494,287.
Application 18/494,287 is a continuation of application No. 17/311,047, granted, now 11,824,643, previously published as PCT/US2019/064404, filed on Dec. 4, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/776,004, filed on Dec. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0064144 A1, Feb. 22, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 12/30 (2021.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 63/0892 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0435 (2013.01); H04W 12/30 (2021.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A device comprising one or more processors and one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to perform operations comprising:
establishing, based on an authentication of the device, a secure connection with a trust enabling infrastructure (TEI) in a service providing service capabilities through a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to a plurality of applications, the service being provided as a middleware;
sending, to the TEI, a credential registration message;
receiving, from the TEI, a response to the credential registration message, wherein the response comprises an identifier of a network function in the service to which the device is to attach and one or more parameters comprising a parameter associated with a security credential, and wherein the identified network function is determined based on the credential registration message and one or more security policies comprising one or more rules for assigning devices to the network function in the service; and
attaching, based on the identifier of the network function and the parameter associated with the security credential, to the network function.