Patent ID: 9325714
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for establishing access control in a network, the method comprising: transmitting, from a control point, an instruction to perform an action on a device; in response to transmitting the instruction, receiving a request from the device to authenticate a user; determining whether to authenticate the user based on an identity assertion capability associated with the control point, wherein the identity assertion capability has an attribute value that, when the attribute value is declared to be true, indicates that the control point is capable of authenticating the user; in response to determining that the attribute value associated with the identity assertion capability has been declared to be true to indicate that the control point is capable of authenticating the user, transmitting a user identity corresponding to the user to the device; receiving permission to perform the action on the device; and causing the action to be performed on the device based on the user identity.