Patent ID: 9208459
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: communicatively connecting an appliance to one or more agents to enable said appliance to provide electronic assets comprising configuration information to said one or more agents for enabling said one or more agents to apply said electronic assets to devices, said appliance being communicatively connectable to a controller that is geographically remote from said appliance and said one or more agents being separate from said controller; said appliance obtaining via a network interface from said controller, said appliance being separate from said one or more agents, a serialization schema defining a unique range of serial numbers and defining how to generate unique serial numbers within said range of serial numbers, said serialization schema defining said serial number range to be a subset of serial numbers able to be represented in a serial number field and being bound to only a particular type of device, said particular type of device being bound to at least said appliance; said appliance using said serialization schema to generate said serial numbers within said range for at least one agent to apply said serial numbers to said particular type of device bound to said appliance; upon receiving a request for one or more serial numbers for said particular type of device from a requesting agent, said appliance providing, through an electronic interface with said one or more agents, the electronic interface being independent of said network interface, said one or more serial numbers to said requesting agent and metering said serial numbers based on a size of said unique range defined by the serialization schema; receiving, from said requesting agent, an agent log of electronic assets and devices to which said electronic assets were applied; storing an appliance log; and sending said agent log and said appliance log to said controller.