Patent ID: 7712128
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a user of a wireless device access to a secure application via a client-server internetworking security protocol configured to at least one of control authentication, perform accounting, and provide access-control in a networked, multiuser environment, comprising steps of: receiving an authentication request message requesting access to said secure application from said wireless device at a wireless access service mechanism configured to process said authentication request message, said authentication request message being in accordance with a wireless message protocol and including an IP address of said wireless device and an access credential of the user of said wireless device; producing, by the wireless access service mechanism, a client-server internetworking security protocol authentication request message based on said authentication request message by reformatting a portion of said authentication request message in accordance with said client-server internetworking security protocol and including information of said IP address of said wireless device and/or said access credential; transmitting said client-server internetworking security protocol authentication request message from said wireless access service mechanism to a client-server internetworking security protocol authentication device configured to perform client-server internetworking security protocol authentication, wherein said client-server internetworking security protocol authentication device authenticates said user for access to said secure application based on said IP address of said wireless device and/or said access credential; receiving a client-server internetworking security protocol authentication accept message and/or a client-server internetworking security protocol authentication reject message from said client-server internetworking security protocol authentication device processing said client-server internetworking security protocol authentication accept message at said wireless access service mechanism to convert said client-server internetworking security protocol accept message to a wireless authentication accept message according to said wireless message protocol; transmitting a client-server internetworking security protocol access message from said wireless access service mechanism to said client-server internetworking security protocol authentication device; transmitting a session start message from said wireless access service mechanism to a wireless gateway device; transmitting said wireless authentication accept message from said wireless access service mechanism to said wireless device, wherein said user is authorized to access said secure application upon receipt of said wireless authentication accept message; timing a connection time between said wireless device and said wireless gateway device so as to produce a wireless timing parameter at said wireless access service mechanism; transmitting a session end notification message from said wireless access service mechanism to said wireless device in response to determining that said wireless timing parameter exceeds a predetermined timing value.