Patent ID: 9609516
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A telecommunications network including: a mobile device; a home network with which the mobile device user has a subscription including content filtering preferences, the home network including a content filtering policy preference store for storing the content filtering preferences of the user and a home authentication server for performing authentication of the mobile device; and a further network having at least one access point with which the mobile device can communicate and a further authentication server for controlling registration of the mobile device with the access point of the further network, and wherein: the further network is connected to the home network for communication therebetween, and the further authentication server is operable to communicate with the home authentication server to perform an authentication process for the mobile device when the mobile device connects to the access point of the further network, and the authentication process accesses data from the content filtering policy preference store storing the content filtering preferences of the user, determines whether or not the further network can satisfy the content filtering preferences of the user, and controls registration of the mobile device with the access point of the further network in dependence upon whether the further network can satisfy the content filtering preferences of the user, wherein the authentication process includes the access point sending an authentication request to the further authentication server, after receiving communication from the mobile device, the further authentication server performing a challenge/response procedure to authenticate the mobile device, and the access point receiving a response from the further authentication server, which is forwarded to the mobile device, with the access point and mobile device analysing the response to determine if the response is as expected.