Patent ID: 9591434
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A user equipment (UE), comprising: a motherboard comprising a communication bus; a cellular radio frequency transceiver connected to the communication bus of the motherboard; a processor connected to the communication bus of the motherboard; a radio frequency identity (RFID) chip connected to the communication bus of the motherboard, wherein the RFID chip comprises an RFID near field communication (NFC) transceiver, an RFID internal processor, an RFID internal memory, and an RFID application stored in the RFID internal memory, wherein the RFID chip provides wireless read access to the RFID internal memory and provides write access to the RFID internal memory to the communication bus of the motherboard; a memory connected to the communication bus of the motherboard; and an application stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, receives a request from the RFID chip to establish a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel via the cellular radio frequency transceiver based on information encapsulated in the request, wherein the RFID application, when executed by the RFID internal processor, wherein the request sent from the RFID chip to the application executed on the processor further comprises the authentication token, and the VPN tunnel is established based on the authentication token.