Patent ID: 11960591
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A system for provisioning a first computing device, the system comprising:
means for receiving, at a computer system, a request to provision the first computing device, the request associated with a request identifier;
means for sending a request to a second computing device separate from the computer system to prepare the first computing device, wherein sending the request includes providing the request identifier and an authentication token to be stored on the provisioned first computing device;
means for receiving, from the second computing device, a unique identifier of the provisioned first computing device associated with the request identifier;
means for storing the request identifier, the authentication token, and the received unique identifier of the provisioned first computing device in a provisioning data structure accessible by the computer system;
means for receiving, by the computer system, an authentication request for the provisioned first computing device on a network, the authentication request including the unique identifier of the provisioned first computing device and the authentication token stored on the provisioned first computing device;
means for identifying the provisioning data structure based upon the unique identifier or the authentication token from the received authentication request;
means for authenticating, by the computer system, the provisioned first computing device on the network based on a determination that both the unique identifier of the provisioned first computing device and the authentication token stored on the provisioned first computing device match both the authentication token and the received unique identifier of the provisioned first computing device in the provisioning data structure; and
means for authorizing access, to the provisioned first computing device, to a controlled resource based on the authenticating.