Performing authentication
AssigneeNokio Corporation
InventorsJukka Tuomi, Timo Takamaki
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Abstract
A method for performing authentication in a communication system comprising an authentication server, and a user profile store storing user profiles for users of the communication system, the method comprising: transmitting from the authentication server to the user profile store a request for the user profile of a user; receiving at the authentication server a response to the request; determining whether the response is indicative of an error; and if the response is indicative of an error, transmitting from the authentication server to the user profile store a message of a type such as to trigger the user profile store to perform a location update procedure in respect of the user.
Claims15
A method for performing authentication in a communication system comprising an authentication server (AS), and a user profile store storing user profiles for users of the communication system, the method comprising:
- transmitting from the authentication server to the user profile store a request for the user profile of a user;
- receiving at the AS a response to the request;
- determining whether the response is indicative of an error;
- and
- if the response is indicative of an error, transmitting from the authentication server to the user profile store a message of a type such as to trigger the user profile store to perform a location update procedure in respect of the user.
An authentication server (AS) for performing authentication in a communication system comprising a user profile store storing user profiles for users of the communication system, the authentication server being arranged to, in order to perform authentication:
- transmit from the authentication server to the user profile store a request for the user profile of a user;
- receive at the AS a response to the request;
- determine whether the response is indicative of an error;
- and
- if the response is indicative of an error, transmit from the authentication server to the user profile store a message of a type such as to trigger the user profile store to perform a location update procedure in respect of the user.
A communication system comprising:
- a user profile store storing user profiles for users of the communication system;
- and
- an authentication server (AS) for performing authentication in the communication system and being arranged to, in order to perform authentication:
- transmit from the authentication server to the user profile store a request for the user profile of a user;
- receive at the AS a response to the request;
- determine whether the response is indicative of an error;
- and if the response is indicative of an error, transmit from the authentication server to the user profile store a message of a type such as to trigger the user profile store to perform a location update procedure in respect of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.