Methods and systems for authorizing a client device to a service
US11876803B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 3, 2020 |
| Grant date | Jan 16, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 30, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/126
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of authorizing a client device to a service includes, by a customer electronic device associated with a customer: defining an access control list that includes permissions for authorized clients of the customer, creating authorization tokens and encoding the ACL into each of the authorization tokens, and distributing the authorization tokens to the authorized clients. The method includes, by a data center that provides a service to one or more of the authorized clients: receiving a service request for the service from a requesting client that includes a submitted authorization token, decoding the submitted authorization token to identify a received ACL in the submitted authorization token, analyzing the received ACL to determine whether the requesting client is an authorized client and the permissions in the received ACL grant the requesting client permission to access the service, and if so, providing the service to the requesting client.
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