Patent ID: 9614831
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for generating an authentication credential for use in an authentication of a mobile device, the method comprising: establishing, via an application layer between the mobile device and a network server, an application-layer credential that is shared with the network server, wherein the application-layer credential is configured to authenticate the mobile device on the application layer for receiving a service from the network server using a first network; discovering a network communication entity on a second network; and generating, based on the application-layer credential, the authentication credential for performing authentication on a communication layer of the second network, wherein the authentication at the second network enables the mobile device to switch from the first network to the second network and receive the service from the network server using the second network, the application-layer credential surviving the switch from the first network to the second network.