US 12,432,076 B2
Provisioning hosts with operator accounts for use by clients to access target resources
Doug Chivers, Hereford (GB); Jeremiah David Small, Wesford, MA (US); and Matías Brutti, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US)
Filed by Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/493,390.
Prior Publication US 2025/0132931 A1, Apr. 24, 2025
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 9/3268 (2013.01) [H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions, which when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause performance of operations comprising:
receiving, at a host network entity associated with a computing network, a first connection request from a client network entity;
determining that the first connection request corresponds to a provisioner account associated with the client network entity;
establishing a first connection with the client network entity via the provisioner account;
receiving, from the client network entity, a digital certificate via the first connection,
wherein the digital certificate comprises an instruction set, the instruction set comprising a first instruction to generate an operator account for the client network entity;
validating the digital certificate and the instruction set based at least in part on a public key associated with a certificate authority that is trusted by the host network entity;
responsive to validating the digital certificate and the instruction set, generating the operator account based on the first instruction;
establishing a second connection with the client network entity via the operator account;
wherein the client network entity utilizes the operator account to access at least one target resource.