Patent ID: 9686669
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a server comprising at least one hardware processor, a first message from a user equipment requesting at least one of a home agent and a home address, the first message comprising mobile internet protocol attributes for indicating the at least one of the home agent and the home address, and the first message sent during a link control protocol phase of a point to point protocol prior to the user equipment receiving one or more authentication challenges; authenticating the user equipment; determining at least one of the home agent and the home address being dynamically assigned to the user equipment in response to the first message sent by the user equipment prior to the user equipment receiving the one or more authentication challenges, wherein the first message requests the at least one of the home agent and the home address, the determining taking place during the authenticating; and providing the assigned at least one of the home agent and the home address to the user equipment only when the user equipment is authenticated, and not providing the assigned at least one of the home agent and the home address to the user equipment when authenticating the user equipment fails.