Patent ID: 8560851

Claim:
A system for managing digital certificates, comprising: a host system of a telecommunications provider comprising: a processor; a memory; a user interface; a plurality of disparate host certificate stores comprising a plurality of host server certificates; and a management tool comprising instructions stored on the memory that when executed by the processor: retrieves a copy of one of the plurality of host server certificates from any of the plurality of disparate host certificate stores, provides the copy of the one of the plurality of host server certificates to a vendor's partner system for loading in a partner certificate store, communicates with the partner system to validate the one of the plurality of host server certificates, validates the copy of the one of the plurality of host server certificates loaded in the partner certificate store, outputs a host server certificate message based on the validation to the user interface, communicates with the vendor's partner system to validate a host client certificate, a partner server certificate, and a partner client certificate, wherein the plurality of host server certificates, the host client certificate, the partner server certificate, and the partner client certificate allow the host system to access applications of the vendor's partner system and the vendor's partner system to access applications of the host system, retrieves a copy of the partner server certificate from the partner system, loads the copy of the partner server certificate to any of the plurality of disparate host certificate stores, communicates with the partner system to validate the copy of the partner server certificate, and outputs a partner server certificate message to the user interface.