Patent 8166296 was granted and assigned to Broadcom (company) on April, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques are provided for users to authenticate themselves to components in a system. The users may securely and efficiently enter credentials into the components. These credentials may be provided to a server in the system with strong authentication that the credentials originate from secure components. The server may then automatically build a network by securely distributing keys to each secure component to which a user presented credentials.