Patent ID: 9311473
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: identifying, by an authenticator executing on a host, a device interfaced to the host; checking, by the authenticator, a device identifier obtained from the device against authorized device identifiers; automatically granting, by the authenticator, an application access to the device when the device identifier is one of the authorized device identifiers, including interacting, by the authenticator, with a device interface of the device to authenticate the device for application access, wherein interacting includes encrypting, by the authenticator, a message with a key that is sent to the device interface and receiving, by the authenticator, a decrypted version back from the device interface indicating access is to be granted and authentication passed for the application to access the device; and automatically denying, by the authenticator, the application access to the device when the device identifier is unmatched in the authorized device identifiers.