US 12,452,129 B2
Method of, a provisioner and a system for provisioning a plurality of operatively interconnected node devices in a network
Changjie Wang, Shanghai (CN); and Lei Feng, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 18/034,707
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Nov. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/080615
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 30, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/096561, PCT Pub. Date May 12, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2020/126849 (WO), filed on Nov. 5, 2020; and application No. 20217251 (EP), filed on Dec. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0396492 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0806 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0869 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of provisioning a plurality of operatively interconnected first type node devices in a network, each first type node device comprising a short range communication interface and configured for operating under control of a network backend server and an application backend server separate from said network backend server, said method comprises method performed by an application provisioner associated with said first type node devices comprising the steps of:
obtaining device specific network provisioning data for and identifying said first type node devices from said network backend server;
obtaining an application credential for said first type node devices from said application backend server, said application credential being known to said application backend server and unknown to said network backend server, and
provisioning said first type node devices by distributing said application credential to each of said first type node devices over a short range communication interface of said first type node device upon successfully mutual authentication with said first type node device using said device specific network provisioning data;
wherein each first type node device is joined to said network under control of said network backend server, prior to said step of obtaining said device specific network provisioning data for said first type node devices.