US Patent 11652811 Automatic provisioning

The present disclosure pertains to provisioning of credentials, and in particular to provisioning of authentication credentials to a computer device for accessing a cloud platform computer system. The computer device obtains sensor data and sends a request including a device identifier to a provisioning server using a provisioning server network address. The computer device receives a response, from the provisioning server, including a platform credential and a platform server network address of a platform server. The computer device stores the platform credential. The computer device sends the sensor data and the platform credential to the platform server using the platform server network address.