Technique for restricting access to a wireless communication service
OwnerPenny Lynne Bright, Keith Albert Mack +2inventors
InventorsPenny Lynne Bright, Keith Albert Mack, Terrence M O'Leary, Hugh D Roche
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Abstract
In providing a wireless communication service of a selected type, a user of a mobile communication device may attempt to access the selected type of service despite his/her subscription to a different type of service. In processing the device's request for accessing the selected type of service, an authentication vector is retrieved based on information identifying the device in the request. The access to the selected type of service may be denied after it is determined that a presentation of the authentication vector does not conform to the selected type of service.
Claims24
A system for providing at least one selected type of wireless communication service, comprising:
- an interface for receiving, via a communication facility, a request from a mobile device for accessing a wireless communication service, the communication facility being provisioned in accordance with the selected type of wireless communication service;
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- a processing element configured to obtain authentication data associated with the mobile device based on selected information in the request, wherein one or more restrictions are imposed on the mobile device after it is determined that a presentation of the authentication data does not conform to the selected type of wireless communication service.
A system for providing at least one selected type of wireless communication service, comprising:
- a communication facility configured in accordance with the selected type of wireless communication service through which a communication from a mobile device is received, data for authentication of at least the mobile device being obtained based on selected information in the communication;
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- a processing element configured to determine whether a presentation of the authentication data conforms to the selected type of wireless communication service, wherein access by the mobile device to the selected type of wireless communication service provided by the system is denied after it is determined that a presentation of the authentication data does not conform to the selected type of wireless communication service.
A method for use in a system for providing at least one selected type of wireless communication service, comprising:
- receiving, via a communication facility, a request from a mobile device for accessing a wireless communication service, the communication facility being provisioned in accordance with the selected type of wireless communication service;
- obtaining authentication data associated with the mobile device based on selected information in the request;
- determining whether a presentation of the authentication data conforms to the selected type of wireless communication service;
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- imposing one or more restrictions on the mobile device after it is determined that a presentation of the authentication data does not conform to the selected type of wireless communication service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.