Digital certificate issuance and monitoring
US10516542B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 8, 2017 |
| Grant date | Dec 24, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 8, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W12/082
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A certificate authority receives a request to issue a digital certificate from a customer. In response to the request, the certificate authority determines a network endpoint to be specific to the digital certificate that is to serve information usable to determine whether the digital certificate is valid. The certificate authority issues, to the customer, a digital certificate that specifies a network address for the network endpoint and records information about requests made to the network endpoint to obtain the information usable to determine whether the digital certificate is valid.
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