Patent ID: 9661498
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of managing security for a connection between a user device and a communications network comprising a plurality of base stations and a core network, the method comprising: receiving security capability information at the core network for the connection between the user device and the communications network via a first base station of the plurality of base stations; retrieving security capability information at the core network for the first base station from a database that stores security capability information for said plurality of base stations; processing, at the core network, the security capability information for the user device and the security capability information for the first base station to select a plurality of preferred security policies for a connection between the user device and the first base station; and transmitting the selected plurality of preferred security policies to the first base station as a list of preferred security policies from which said base station selects a security policy.