Patent ID: 8533858
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A domain management method for managing a domain composed of at least one user and at least one device using a domain manager, wherein the domain manager is not included in the domain, the domain management method comprising: requesting, by a device of a domain administrator who is one user in the domain, the domain manager to register a domain in accordance to a contract with a service provider; creating, by the domain manager, new domain management information (DMI) and a domain user resource for the domain administrator, wherein the (DMI) comprises: a domain ID, a domain key, an administrator ID and an administrator key of the domain administrator, a user ID list, a device ID list, a maximum number of users, a maximum number of devices, a maximum frequency update of user, a maximum frequency of device, a revocation list of user, a revocation list of device, and a registration domain date; and the domain user resource comprises: a domain ID, a domain key, a user ID, a user key and a list of devices permitted to be used by a user; transmitting, by the domain manager, the domain user resource for domain administrator to the device of the domain administrator; storing the domain user resource in the device of the domain administrator; requesting, by the device of the domain administrator, the domain manager to add a user; modifying, by the domain manager, the DMI to insert into the user ID list an ID of the user requested to add and creating, by the domain manager, a domain user resource for the user requested to add; and transmitting the domain user resource for the added user from the domain manager to the device of the domain administrator, wherein the device of the domain administrator forwards the domain user resource to a device of the added user.