Patent ID: 11949718
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 20:
21. A method of transmitting information from a source to a destination in a network of elements including trusted elements via at least one trusted communications path according to a trusted path policy, comprising:
transmitting a trusted path policy query from the source to a resolver, the trusted path policy query comprising the trusted path policy and a destination address;
receiving trusted communication path information generated by the resolver, the trusted communication path information describing at least a portion of the at least one trusted communication path to the destination generated at least in part from security confidence information of each of the trusted elements and the trusted path policy; and
transmitting the information via the trusted communications path according to the trusted communications path information,
wherein the resolver:
receives the security confidence information of each of the trusted elements of the network, the security confidence information having at least one security parameter of the associated trusted element;
registers each of the trusted elements using the security confidence information;
generates a unique trusted communications path digital certificate for each of the source, the destination, and the trusted elements of the network; and
provides each respective unique trusted path digital certificate to the source, the destination and each respective trusted element in the network.