US 11,924,212 B2
Providing access control to distributed resources to an information handling system
Charles Delbert Robison, Jr., Buford, GA (US); Daniel Lawrence Hamlin, Round Rock, TX (US); and Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/355,788.
Prior Publication US 2022/0417248 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/102 (2013.01) [G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 63/108 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2103 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of providing access control to distributed resources, the method comprising:
storing, at a computing dock coupled to an information handling system, a local access database indicating verified credentials of one or more users;
receiving, at the computing dock, a request for access to a resource coupled to the computing dock;
providing, in response to the request for access, an authentication request to an authentication system;
in response to the authentication request, providing, by the computing dock, an authentication challenge to the information handling system;
receiving, at the computing dock and in response to the authentication challenge, user credentials at the authentication system;
verifying, at the authentication system, the user credentials against the local access database;
providing, based on the verified user credentials, an authorization token to the first device; and
allocating, based on the authorization token, access to the resource to the information handling system.