US 11,683,181 B2
Persona and device based certificate management
Ahmad Arash Obaidi, Bellevue, WA (US); and Eric W. Yocam, Sammamish, WA (US)
Assigned to T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed by T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed on Apr. 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/842,258.
Application 16/842,258 is a division of application No. 14/985,273, filed on Dec. 30, 2015, granted, now 10,652,023.
Prior Publication US 2020/0235939 A1, Jul. 23, 2020
Int. Cl. H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 9/3242 (2013.01) [H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 9/30 (2013.01); H04L 9/3263 (2013.01); H04L 63/0823 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
receiving a first digital certificate from a target device, wherein the first digital certificate corresponds to a pairing of a target user and the target device, wherein the first digital certificate is issued by a certificate authority implemented on the target device, and wherein the certificate authority resides at the lowest hardware level of the target computing device;
verifying the first digital certificate;
determining one or more actions based at least partly on the verification of the first digital certificate; and
causing performance of the one or more actions by a remote reacting device with respect to the pairing of the target user and the target device, wherein the performance of the one or more actions is responsive to the remote reacting device detecting the target device,
the method performed programmatically by one or more computing systems under control of executable program code.