Operation related to user equipment using secret identifier
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsPrajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Noamen Ben Henda, Christine Jost, Vesa Torvinen
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Abstract
A method performed by a network node of a serving public land mobile network, PLMN, associated with a user equipment, UE, comprising: obtaining a secret identifier that uniquely identifies the UE, wherein the secret identifier is a secret that is shared between the UE and at least a home PLMN of the UE and that is shared by the home PLMN with the network node; and performing an operation related to the UE using the secret identifier. Other methods, computer programs, computer program products, network nodes and a serving PLMN are also disclosed.
Claims11
A method performed by a network node of a serving public land mobile network (PLMN) associated with a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
- the network node of the serving PLMN receiving, from the UE, a public identifier corresponding to the UE, wherein the UE has a home PLMN and the serving PLMN is not the UE's home PLMN;
- the network node of the serving PLMN forwarding to the UE's home PLMN the public identifier corresponding to the UE;
- the network node of the serving PLMN receiving from the UE's home PLMN an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) in response to the network node of the serving PLMN forwarding the public identifier to the UE's home PLMN, wherein the IMSI uniquely identifies the UE and is a secret that is shared between the UE and at least the UE's home PLMN;
- receiving authentication information from the home PLMN, the authentication information allowing the serving PLMN to perform authentication of the UE;
- using the authentication information to determine, by the serving PLMN, that the UE is successfully authenticated;
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- performing an operation related to charging control using the IMSI.
A network node of a serving public land mobile network (PLMN) associated with a user equipment (UE), the network node comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory, the memory containing instructions executable by the processor wherein the network node is configured to:
- receive, from the UE, a public identifier corresponding to the UE, wherein the UE has a home PLMN and the serving PLMN is not the UE's home PLMN;
- forward the public identifier to a home PLMN of the UE;
- receive from the home PLMN an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) in response to the forwarding of the public identifier, wherein the IMSI uniquely identifies the UE and is a secret that is shared between the UE and at least the home PLMN;
- receive authentication information from the home PLMN, the authentication information allowing the serving PLMN to perform authentication of the UE;
- use the authentication information to determine, by the serving PLMN, that the UE is successfully authenticated;
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- perform an operation related to charging control of the UE using the IMSI.
A method performed by a serving public land mobile network (PLMN) associated with a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
- the serving PLMN receiving, from the UE, a public identifier corresponding to the UE, wherein the UE has a home PLMN and the serving PLMN is not the UE's home PLMN;
- the serving PLMN forwarding to the UE's home PLMN the received public identifier the serving PLMN receiving, from the UE's home PLMN after the UE has been successfully authenticated by the home PLMN or the serving PLMN, an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) that uniquely identifies the UE and is a secret previously shared between the UE and the home PLMN;
- the serving PLMN receiving authentication information from the home PLMN, the authentication information allowing the serving PLMN to perform authentication of the UE;
- the serving PLMN using the authentication information to determine, by the serving PLMN, that the UE is successfully authenticated;
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- performing a charging control related to the UE.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.