Patent ID: 9032499
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of providing a certificate for certificate based wireless network access comprising: receiving from a user by way of a computing device authenticated to a remote first system a request for access to a second system remote from the first system, the request having at least one identifier, wherein the access is certificate based wireless network access; receiving at an authorizing system from a third party at least one predefined attribute as criteria for receiving a certificate; querying, by the authorizing system, the first system with the at least one identifier for attributes associated with the user; evaluating, by the authorizing system, the attributes associated with the user to the at least one predefined attribute; providing the user with an X.509 certificate with at least one characteristic derived from the attributed associated with the user for certificate based wireless network access on a secured wireless network of the second system in response to at least one attribute associated with the user correlating to at least one predefined attribute, wherein a first user having a first set of correlating attributes is provided with a certificate permitting different access than a second user having a second set of correlating attributes, the first and second sets being different with respect to at least one correlated attribute; and enabling a level of access to the secured wireless network of the second system based on the certificate.