US 2010/0169954 A1 · Wireless Access System and Wireless Access Method

Abstract

A policy control device (9) is installed as a gateway to a 3GPP network (7) between a WLAN-AP (4) and authentication server (5) in a WLAN network (2). On the basis of the type (EAP type) of authentication method of an authentication message transmitted from a WLAN terminal (1), the policy control device (9) determines whether to transfer the authentication message to the 3GPP network (7) or to the WLAN network (2) or an ISP network (3), and transfers the authentication message to the determined transfer destination network. Since this allows only EAP-AKA authentication messages to be transferred to the 3GPP network (7), the processing load on an intra-3GPP authentication server (8) reduces.

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Dependent claims

A wireless access system:

a transfer destination network determining unit which determines, on the basis of the type of authentication method of an authentication message transmitted from a wireless terminal, whether to transfer the authentication message to a mobile communication system or a network other than the mobile communication network;
and
an authentication message transferring unit which transfers the authentication message to a transfer destination network determined by said transfer destination network determining unit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/280,010Filed 14 Dec 2006

Priority

JP 2006-04493322 Feb 2006

Published

1 Jul 2010

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

H04W 12/06
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: authentication
H04L 63/08
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for authentication of entities
H04L 63/20
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for managing network security; network security policies in general
H04L 63/205
For managing network security; network security policies in general: involving negotiation or determination of the one or more network security…

Wireless Access System and Wireless Access Method

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