US Patent 10129031 End-to-end service layer authentication

A variety of mechanisms to perform End-to-End authentication between entities having diverse capabilities (E.g. processing, memory, etc.) and with no prior security associations are used. Security provisioning and configuration process is done such that appropriate security credentials, functions, scope and parameters may be provisioned to an Entity. Mechanisms to distribute the security credentials to other entities which could then use the credentials to perform an End-to-End authentication at the Service Layer or the Session Layer and using Direct or Delegated modes are developed.