System and method for managing electronic assets

摘要

An asset management system is provided which comprises one or more controllers, which operate as main servers and can be located at the headquarters of an electronic device manufacturer to remotely control their operations at any global location. The controller can communicate remotely over the Internet or other network to control one or more secondary or remote servers, herein referred to as appliances. The appliances can be situated at different manufacturing, testing or distribution sites. The controller and appliances comprise hardware security modules (HSMs) to perform sensitive and high trust computations, store sensitive information such as private keys, perform other cryptographic operations, and establish secure connections between components. The HSMs are used to create secure end-points between the controller and the appliance and between the appliance and the secure point of trust in an asset control core embedded in a device.

主权项

1. A method for managing electronic assets, said method comprising:
communicatively connecting an appliance device to a controller device using a computer processor in said appliance device, said appliance device obtaining electronic assets from said controller device; said computer processor communicatively connecting said appliance device to at least one agent running on equipment interfacing with electronic devices that utilize said electronic assets, said at least one agent applying said electronic assets to said electronic devices in a configuration process; said computer processor establishing separate data communication threads between said appliance device and said controller device and between said appliance device and each of said at least one agent for handling service requests over each communicative connection; and said computer processor obtaining assets from said controller device in a first data communication thread and separately distributing said electronic assets to said at least one agent in at least one second data communication thread, to communicate with said controller device and service said at least one agent independently of each other.