Patent ID: 9374358
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing access control for a computing device, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, a first request to authenticate the computing device from a first sender device, wherein the request includes at least a first application identifier to identify an application executing on the sender device; determining, by the server, whether the computing device is valid based at least in part on the first request using at least a certificate associated with the computing device; transmitting by the server a session identifier and a session key to the first sender device in response to determining that the computing device is valid; receiving by the server a second application identifier associated with the sender device from the computing device after the sender device transmits a launch request to the computing device; determining, by the server using a hardware processor, whether a sender application executing on the sender device is valid based at least in part on the first application identifier received from the sender device and the second application identifier received from the computing device; and transmitting by the server the session key to the computing device in response to determining that the sender application is valid to facilitate secure communication between the user device and the computing device using the session key.