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AssigneeInterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
InventorsInhyok Cha, Andreas Leicher, Andreas Schmidt, Louis J. Guccione, Yogendra C. Shah, Yousif Targali
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Wireless telecommunications networks may implement various forms of authentication. There are a variety of different user and device authentication protocols that follow a similar network architecture, involving various network entities such as a user equipment (UE), a service provider (SP), and an authentication endpoint (AEP). To select an acceptable authentication protocol or credential for authenticating a user or UE, authentication protocol negotiations may take place between various network entities. For example, negotiations may take place in networks implementing a single-sign on (SSO) architecture and/or networks implementing a Generic Bootstrapping Architecture (GBA).
In a system comprising a user equipment (UE), a service provider (SP) that comprises a Network Access Function (NAF), and an authentication end point (AEP) that comprises a Bootstrapping Server Function (BSF) which communicate via a network that implements a Generic Bootstrapping Architecture, a method of authenticating the UE by the AEP, comprising, at the AEP:
In a system comprising a user equipment (UE), a service provider (SP) that comprises a Network Access Function (NAF), and an authentication end point (AEP) that comprises a Bootstrapping Server Function (BSF) which communicate via a network that implements a Generic Bootstrapping Architecture (GBA), a method of authenticating the UE by the AEP, comprising, at the SP:
In a system comprising a user equipment (UE), a service provider (SP) that comprises a Network Access Function (NAF), and an authentication end point (AEP) that comprises a Bootstrapping Server Function (BSF) which communicate via a network that implements a Generic Bootstrapping Architecture (GBA), a method of authenticating the UE, comprising, at the UE:
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