Method and Apparatus for Accessing Heterogeneous Networks via Wireless Local Area Network
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorGuodong Li
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for accessing heterogeneous networks via a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) are disclosed. The method includes receiving an access request from a WLAN terminal or a portal/policy server; determining a target network that the terminal needs to access according to the access request; converting the access request according to the format of a target network transmission protocol; sending the converted access request to the target network; and receiving an authentication result from the target network, and sending the authentication result to the terminal.
Claims12
A method for accessing heterogeneous networks via a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), the method comprising:
- receiving an access request from a terminal or a portal/policy server;
- determining a target network that the terminal needs to access according to the access request;
- converting the access request according to a format of a target network transmission protocol;
- sending the converted access request to the target network;
- receiving an authentication result sent from the target network;
- and
- sending the authentication result to the terminal.
An authentication serving gateway, comprising:
- a request receiving unit, adapted to receive an access request from a terminal or a portal/policy server;
- a target network determining unit, adapted to determine a target network that the terminal needs to access according to the access request;
- a request converting unit, adapted to convert the access request according to a format of a target network transmission protocol;
- a request sending unit, adapted to send the converted access request to the target network;
- an authentication result receiving unit, adapted to receive an authentication result from the target network;
- and
- an authentication result sending unit, adapted to send the authentication result to the terminal.
A portal/policy server, comprising:
- an access request receiving unit, adapted to receive an access request from a terminal;
- a login page sending unit, adapted to send an authentication login page to the terminal after receiving the access request;
- a login information receiving unit, adapted to receive authentication login information from the terminal;
- and
- an access request sending unit, adapted to determine an access policy according to the authentication login information and send an access request that comprises the access policy to an authentication serving gateway.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.