Certificate authority

US11997222B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Peter Zachary Bowen · Bainbridge Island, US
• Todd Lawrence Cignetti · Ashburn, US
• Preston Anthony Elder, III · Fairfax, US
• Brandonn Gorman · Seattle, US
• Ronald Andrew Hoskinson · Herndon, US
• Jonathan Kozolchyk · Seattle, US
• Kenneth Lawler · Seattle, US
• Marcel Andrew Levy · Seattle, US
• Kyle Benjamin Schultheiss · Centreville, US
• Sandeep Shantharaj · Herndon, US
• Param Sharma · Haymarket, US
• Jose Maria Silveira Neto · Herndon, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 28, 2022
• Grant date: May 28, 2024
• Expiry date: Apr 28, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L9/3297
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computing resource service provider provides a certificate management service that allows customers of the computing resource service provider to create, distribute, manage, and revoke digital certificates issued by private certificate authorities. A private certificate authority hosted by the computing resource service provider is able to issue signed certificates to network entities within the customer enterprise. The certificate management service provides a network-accessible application programming interface to the private certificate authority that allows applications to create and deploy private certificates programmatically. The system provides the flexibility to create private certificates for applications that require custom certificate lifetimes or resource names.