Systems and methods for securing extranet transactions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8972740-B2
Application number	US-201213647084-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2012
Priority date	Jun 9, 1999
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

The systems and methods described herein relate to secure extranets which utilize certificate authentication to mediate access, transactions, and user tracking. Such extranets may be employed to provide an interface accessible over a network, such as the Internet, capable of authenticating and recording transactions for business, medical, or other purposes.

First claim

We claim:

1. A system, comprising:
a certificate authentication component configured to verify respective identities of users from respective digital certificates supplied by the users;
a directory, coupled to the certificate authentication component, configured to maintain an account for each individual user, each account containing an access policy specifying at least one isolated subnet to which the corresponding user is permitted access out of a plurality of isolated subnets…

Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Garrity Sharyn Marie
• Scott Ronald Lewis
• Helsinger Aaron Mark

Classifications

• G06F21/33

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/102

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0823 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0209

  Electricity · mapped topic