US 11,997,169 B2
Method for activating edge servers
Ming Lei, Beijing (CN); Haijun Xu, Beijing (CN); Zhipeng Gao, Beijing (CN); Da Li, Beijing (CN); and Shaohua Li, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, Beijing (CN)
Filed by Lenovo (Beijing) Limited, Beijing (CN)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/240,634.
Claims priority of application No. 202211065882.0 (CN), filed on Aug. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0073287 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 67/141 (2022.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/141 (2013.01) [H04L 9/30 (2013.01); H04L 9/3213 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for activating a first edge server and a second edge server, wherein the first edge server includes a first service processor, and the second edge server includes a second service processor, the method comprising:
establishing a data communication connection between the first service processor and the second service processor;
establishing a data communication connection between the first service processor and a specified website;
establishing a trusted communication between the first service processor and the specified website;
establishing a trusted communication between the first service processor and the second service processor;
obtaining an activation right from the specified website by the first service processor; and
executing the activation right to activate the first edge server and the second edge server by the first service processor;
wherein:
the first service processor requests the second service processor to provide an activation request code of the second edge server;
the first service processor provides an activation request code of the first edge server and the activation request code of the second edge server to the specified website; and
after the first service processor receives, from the specified website, an activation response of the first edge server and an activation response of the second edge server, the first service processor activates the first edge server and sends the activation response of the second edge server to the second service processor.