Method for dynamically authorizing a mobile communications device
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorRainer Falk
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Abstract
Physically access-protected service access, such as a service flap having a mechanical lock, for example, are used to ensure the secure establishment of security check information. Logical access security to service functions is produced using the security check information via additional, decentralized service interfaces. For this purpose, it is not the mobile service device that is connected to the physically access-protected communications interface, but rather a second authentication module associated with the mobile service device. Security check information is provided by the authentication module for secure service access to the network via additional, decentralized communications interfaces of the network.
Claims10
A method for dynamic authorization of a mobile communications device for a network, which comprises the steps of:
- connecting an authentication module associated with the mobile communications device to the network via a physically access-protected communications interface, the authentication module being physically separate from the mobile communications device and being physically separate from the network, the authentication module being connected to the network when the mobile communications device needs access to the network;
- transferring, via the mobile communications device, an access request to the network via a further wireless or wired communications interface;
- providing an authentication check unit of the network with security check information of the mobile communications device directly from the authentication module, the authentication check unit authorizing the mobile communications device for the network with an aid of the access request and the security check information;
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- physically disconnecting the authentication module from the network after access is granted to the mobile communication device.
A system for dynamic authorization of a mobile communications device for a network by an authentication check unit of the network, the system comprising:
- an authentication module associated with the mobile communications device, said authentication module having a processor and a memory electrically connected to said memory;
- a physically access-protected communications interface for connecting said authentication module to the network, said physically access-protected communications interface enclosed in said lockable mechanical closure apparatus thus providing restricted public access;
- further wireless or wired communications interfaces for connecting the mobile communications device to the network;
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- said authentication module having means, which includes said processor and said memory, for providing security check information of the mobile communications device, with an aid of which the mobile communications device is authorized by the authentication check unit of the network, the authentication check unit of the network receiving the security check information directly from the authentication module, said authentication module being physically separate from the mobile communications device and being physically separate from the network, said authentication module being connected to the network when said mobile communications device needs access to the network and being physically disconnectable from the network after access is granted.
An authentication module providing a dynamic authorization of a mobile communications device for a network, the authentication module stored in non-transitory formed and being programmed to, when loaded into a memory of a non-transitory computer to:
- connect the authentication module associated with the mobile communications device to the network via a physically access-protected communications interface, the authentication module being physically separate from the mobile communications device and being physically separate from the network, the authentication module being connected to the network when the mobile communications device needs access to the network;
- transfer, via the mobile communications device, an access request to the network via a further wireless or wired communications interface;
- provide an authentication check unit of the network with security check information of the mobile communications device directly from the authentication module, the authentication check unit authorizing the mobile communications device for the network with an aid of the access request and the security check information;
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- physically disconnect the authentication module from the network after the mobile communication device is authorized to access the network.
A method for dynamic authorization of a mobile communications device for a network, which comprises the steps of:
- connecting an authentication module associated with the mobile communications device to the network via a physically access-protected communications interface protected and enclosed in a lockable mechanical closure apparatus thus providing restricted public access, the authentication module being physically separate from the mobile communications device and being physically separate from the network, the authentication module being connected to the network when the mobile communications device needs access to the network;
- transferring, via the mobile communications device, an access request to the network via a further wireless or wired communications interface;
- providing an authentication check unit of the network with security check information of the mobile communications device directly from the authentication module, the authentication check unit authorizing the mobile communications device for the network with an aid of the access request and the security check information;
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- physically disconnecting the authentication module from the network after the mobile communication device is authorized to access the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.