Patent ID: 9401911
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: H04L,Y04S

Claim Text:
1. At a client computer system including at least one processor and a memory, in a computer networking environment including a plurality of computing systems, a computer-implemented method for providing a certificate extension to an authentication certificate, the method comprising: accessing an authentication certificate renewal request that is to be sent first to a validation server for validation and, when validated by the validation server, to a certificate authority for issuance of an authentication certificate; appending an extension to the authentication certificate renewal request, the extension including origination information about the authentication certificate, identification of a user and computer system which issued the request, and indication of when a last request from the user was received, and wherein the extension is sent with the authentication certificate renewal request to the validation server for validation; sending the authentication certificate renewal request with the appended extension to the validation server for validation, wherein when validated by the validation server, the validation server sends the validated request and the extension to the certificate authority for issuance of an authentication certificate; and receiving a validation result from the validation server.