Patent ID: 9137660
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for authentication processing, comprising: receiving from a user equipment (UE), by a 3 determining, by the 3GPP AAA server, the authentication mode applied to the UE is the EAP-AKA′authentication mode, according to a prefix in the UE's first user identifier complying with the NAI format; obtaining, by the 3GPP AAA server, a second user identifier from the UE; judging, by the 3GPP AAA server, whether the second user identifier is the same as the first user identifier in the authentication request message; checking, by the 3GPP AAA server, whether an unused authentication vector (AV) is available with a value of a separation bit of authentication management field (AMF) of authentication token (AUTN) equal to 1, when the second user identifier is the same as the first user identifier in the authentication request message; and performing, by the 3GPP AAA server, an EAP-AKA′ authentication process through the unused AV, when the unused AV is available with the value of the separation bit of the AMF of the AUTN equal to 1.