Patent ID: 6564320
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
In a system including a certification authority, an affiliate of the certification authority, and a client of the affiliate, a computer readable medium used by the certification authority to enable the affiliate to locally host provision of a digital certificate service requested by the client and provided by the certification authority, the computer readable medium storing:computer code for generating a standard request to be received by a central server associated with the certification authority, wherein: a local server associated with the affiliate is coupled to the client, the local server provides to the client a custom entry form containing at least a portion of the computer code for generating the standard request, the client uses the custom entry form to request the digital certificate service, the client's use of the custom entry form results in the standard request for the digital certificate service, the standard request is received by the central server; and a model template upon which a custom display of results is based, wherein: the model template includes a placeholder for data contained in a standard response, the affiliate creates a custom template based on the model template, the custom template including the placeholder, the central server produces the standard response in response to the standard request, and the local server replaces the placeholder in the custom template with the data in the standard response to produce the custom display.