Patent ID: 9306932
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, at a server-based certificate validation protocol (SCVP) server, for providing certificate validation status information, comprising: receiving a request for an SCVP response from an entity; identifying the entity requesting the SCVP response, a first certificate to be validated, and at least one second certificate, wherein the at least one second certificate is a trusted certificate to be used for validating the first certificate; determining that the at least one second certificate is not a part of a PKI domain of the first certificate; and in response to determining, generating an SCVP staple comprising a first SCVP response and a second SCVP response, wherein the first SCVP response validates a certificate path between the first certificate and at least one trusted certificate of the PKI domain of the first certificate, and the second SCVP response validates a certificate path between the at least one trusted certificate of the PKI domain of the first certificate and the at least one second certificate.