Patent ID: 9166969
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: requesting, by a client device, permission from a network access device to access a network associated with the network access device; sending, from the client device, credentials of a user for authenticating with the network access device, wherein the user is associated with the client device; receiving, at the client device and from the network access device, permission to access the network along with a session certificate and an associated key, wherein the session certificate and the key are associated with the credentials of the user; based on receiving the permission, establishing, by the client device, a network session using the network; establishing, by the client device during the network session, a secure communications channel with a web server associated with a website; authenticating, using the client device, the user to the website by sending the session certificate to the web server over the secure communications channel; and based on information received at the web server from an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server indicating that the session certificate is valid in response to the web server requesting the information from the AAA server, receiving, from the web server at the client device, permission from the website to access contents of the website, wherein the information received by the web server from the AAA server indicating that the session certificate is valid is based on information received at the AAA server from the network access device relating to the status of the network session, and wherein the request from the web server to the AAA server for information includes information on the session certificate.