METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING PROTECTED SUPPORT FOR CLIENT DEVICE Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC G06F13/00 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: in a client/server computing environment, the client requests for a network address. The address indicates that the client is capable of attempting to authenticate itself for the server and the client receives a network address proposal from the server. The proposal contains a request that the client authenticates itself for the server. The authentication attempt by the client for the server, if the client is authenticated as allowed to receive a network address in a client/server computing environment, and if the server is authenticated as allowed to provide a network address in a client/server computing environment, the network address which is suitable for the client/server computing environment and which is currently not assigned to any client is authenticated, the client is assigned the authenticated network address by the server, the client is provided the assigned network address and the assigned network address is received by the client.

EFFECT: more reliable protection of the client-server connection during dynamic configuration.

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