Patent ID: 11968205
Assignee: 3D BRIDGE SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of securely communicating with one or more electronic assets using an authenticated computer hub and a central server, the method comprising:
at a central server,
establishing a secure communication channel between the central server and a computer hub to receive a hub identity uniquely identifying the computer hub;
storing a database of authenticated computer hubs with a list of authenticated hub identities and one or more identifiers for electronic assets;
creating an authenticated computer hub by matching the received hub identity against the database of authenticated computer hubs;
providing a hub manager interface to the authenticated computer hub, the computer hub manager interface for selecting and assigning one or more electronic assets and control directives defining operational usage parameters for selected and assigned electronic assets within an asset database;
receiving communication results from the authenticated computer hub when received from the selected and assigned electronic assets following the control directives provided by the hub manager interface;

at the authenticated computer hub,
communicating over the secure communication channel the hub identity for verification at the central server in order to receive electronic asset assignments;
receiving instructions providing identifiers for the selected and assigned electronic assets that are to be granted access to the authenticated computer hub from the central server;
providing a user interface to select the electronic assets that are granted access to enable connection through a short range network and communication method, wherein the user interface indicates that the selected and assigned electronic assets have been connected to the computer hub;
connecting to the selected and assigned electronic assets through the short-range network and communication method providing two-way communication between the selected and assigned electronic assets and the authenticated computer hub;
executing the control directives to periodically attempt to communicate with the selected and assigned electronic assets to exchange data, and
communicating over the network connection the communication results from the one or more authorized electronic assets using guidelines provided within the control directives.