Patent ID: 9635030
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, from a client device, an access request for an administered resource that is subject to an administrative policy which governs access the administered resource, the access request including a unique identifier of the client device; comparing the unique identifier with information in a client registry; in response to determining, based at least in part on the comparing, that the unique identifier matches information from the client registry and a status associated with the unique identifier indicates that the client device is compliant with the administrative policy, determining that the client device is compliant with the administrative policy; in response to determining, based at least in part on the comparing, that the unique identifier does not matches information from the client registry, determining that the client device is not compliant with the administrative policy; in response to determining, based at least in part on the comparing, that the unique identifier matches information from the client registry and the status associated with the unique identifier indicates that the client device is not compliant with the administrative policy, determining that the client device is not compliant with the administrative policy; if the client device is compliant with the administrative policy, sending a token to the client device that provides access to the administered resource; and if the client device is not compliant with the administrative policy, sending the client device one or more instructions instructing at least one of the client device or a user of the client device how to conform the client device to the administrative policy.