Patent ID: 11882110
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for renewal of a security certificate of a supplicant device, the method comprising:
receiving, by an authenticator device and from a supplicant device, a request to authenticate the supplicant device based on the security certificate, wherein the request comprises information relating to the security certificate which is expired;
determining, by the authenticator device, a login history of the supplicant device and presence of a valid account associated with the supplicant device in a directory database, wherein the valid account has a login credential and the login history comprises a list of successful login attempts of the supplicant device in a network managed by the authenticator device;
identifying a last successful login attempt from the list of successful login attempts of the supplicant device in the network managed by the authenticator device;
determining whether the last successful login attempt was within a first threshold time period;
sending, by the authenticator device, an authentication successful message to the supplicant device in response to a determination that the last successful login attempt was within the first threshold time period and the valid account associated with the supplicant device is present in the directory database;
redirecting, by the authenticator device, the supplicant device to a captive web portal for authentication of the supplicant device based on the login credential; and
providing, by the authenticator device, a renewed security certificate for the supplicant device, in response to successful authentication of the supplicant device in the captive web portal.