Systems and methods for managing application authentication in a wireless network
AssigneeT-Mobile Innovations LLC
InventorsDavid Vercillo, Anthony Yiu
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for authenticating applications in a wireless network. Methods include determining that an application uses IP authentication. The methods further include querying a policy server for information on an IP address of a client running the application, wherein the information includes a device type indicator for the IP address. The methods further include determining that the device type indicator indicates the IP address is assigned to a cellular home internet gateway. The methods further include transmitting a notification to the client running the application upon determining that the IP address is assigned to the cellular home internet gateway.
Claims19
A method of authenticating an application in a wireless network, the method comprising:
- determining that the application uses IP authentication;
- querying a policy server for information on an IP address of a client running the application, wherein the information includes a device type indicator for the IP address;
- determining that the device type indicator indicates that the IP address is assigned to a cellular home internet gateway;
- and
- transmitting a notification to the client running the application upon determining that the IP address is assigned to the cellular home internet gateway, wherein the notification to the client running the application causes the application to disconnect the client from the cellular home internet gateway.
A system, the system comprising:
- a policy server;
- an application server;
- an entitlement server including at least one electronic processor configured to perform entitlement operations, the entitlement operations including:
- receiving a request for authentication from an application;
- determining that the application uses IP authentication;
- querying the policy server for information on an IP address of a client running the application, wherein the information includes a device type indicator for the IP address;
- determining that the device type indicator indicates that the IP address is assigned to a cellular home internet gateway;
- and
- transmitting a notification to the client running the application upon determining that the IP address is assigned to the cellular home internet gateway.
A method of authenticating an application in a wireless network, the method comprising:
- receiving a request for authentication, at an entitlement server, from an application running on a client;
- determining, at the entitlement server, that the application uses IP authentication;
- querying a Policy Control and Charging Rules Function server (PCRF) for information on an IP address of the client running the application, wherein the information includes a device type indicator for the IP address;
- determining whether the device type indicator indicates the IP address is assigned to a cellular home internet gateway;
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- transmitting a notification to the client running the application upon determining that the IP address is assigned to the cellular home internet gateway, wherein the notification to the client running the application causes the application to disconnect the client from the cellular home internet gateway.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.