Patent ID: 11895504
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method, comprising:
notifying, by an Access Point (AP) of a wireless network of a federated service, a User Equipment (UE) that the wireless network supports Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC);
in response to receiving an attach request from the UE for the wireless network, forwarding, from the AP to an independent identity provider in an identity federation, wherein the independent identity provider is external and independent from the wireless network, authentication credentials for the UE to authenticate an identity of the UE on behalf of the wireless network;
in response to the independent identity provider authenticating the UE:
transmitting, from the independent identity provider to the AP, an authentication success message for attachment to the wireless network;
forwarding, from the AP to the UE, the authentication success message for attachment to the wireless network; and
permitting the UE to access MEC resources in the wireless network based on the identity for the UE authenticated by the independent identity provider to the wireless network.