Patent ID: 11956236
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method at an authentication server connected within a network, the method comprising:
receiving, from a privacy policy server, a query for a device address of an electronic device;
locating a network session identifier associated with the device address;
searching for a device privacy state tuple containing the network session identifier, with effect that the device privacy state tuple containing the network session identifier is either located or not located;
in response to locating the device privacy state tuple containing the network session identifier, sending, to the privacy policy server, a result to the query, the result indicating a privacy policy acceptance state in the device privacy state tuple; and
in response to not locating the device privacy state tuple containing the network session identifier, creating another device privacy state tuple containing the device address, the network session identifier and a value for the privacy policy acceptance state indicating that the electronic device has not accepted a privacy policy of the network.