Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products Supporting Provision of Web Services Using IMS
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsLoraine Beyer, Amy Zwarico
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Abstract
A web service request from a device is received at a web service provider. The web service request is authenticated at the web service provider using the IMS network. A requested web service is provided to the device responsive to the authentication of the web service request. The web service request may be received via a path outside of the IMS network, e.g., over a network using HTTP or other non-IMS protocol. The requested web service may also be provided using a web service response communicated to the device via a path outside of the IMS network.
Claims17
A method of operating an internet protocol multimedia subsystem network to support provision of a web service, comprising:
- receiving a web service request from a device at a web service provider, wherein the web service provider comprises a session initiation protocol-enabled web service provider;
- authenticating the web service request at the web service provider using the internet protocol multimedia subsystem network;
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- providing the web service to the device responsive to the authenticating of the web service request,
- wherein the receiving the web service request from the device at the web service provider comprises receiving the web service request from the device via a path outside of the internet protocol multimedia subsystem network.
A method of authenticating web service requests, comprising:
- receiving an authentication request including an identity of a source of a web service request from a session initiation protocol-enabled web service provider at an identity provider;
- authenticating the identity of the source of the web service request at the identity provider via internet protocol multimedia subsystem communication with a device, comprising generating an authentication vector at the identity provider responsive to the authentication request;
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- transmitting an authentication response to the session initiation protocol-enabled web service provider responsive to the authenticating of the identity of the source of the web service request at the identity provider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.