Patent ID: 11924195
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
establishing, by a network device, an Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS) tunnel with an unauthenticated client device associated with a user of a restricted network;
refraining, by the network device, from assigning a temporary Internet Protocol (IP) address to the unauthenticated client device;
receiving, by the network device, a user credential associated with the user and transmitted from the unauthenticated client device within the EAP-TLS tunnel;
validating, by the network device, the received user credential; and
based on the validating of the received user credential, transmitting, by the network device, a security certificate and device configuration information to the unauthenticated client device within the EAP-TLS tunnel such that the unauthenticated client device is able to access the restricted network after installing the security certificate and applying a device configuration based on the device configuration information transmitted from the network device.