Patent ID: 8667579
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for bridging authentication, authorization, and access between web-based and telecommunications networks, the method comprising: issuing, to an application hosted in a web-based network, an access token associated with a user identifier subscribed to a telecommunications network, wherein the access token is issued in response to receiving telecommunications network credentials from a client device associated with the user identifier, and wherein the access token includes an oAuth-based token; receiving, at an over the top (OTT) proxy element in the telecommunications network from the application, the access token for requesting user data associated with the client device to be used to access the application; retrieving the user data if the access token is valid and a telecommunications network context condition is met; and providing the user data to the application, wherein access to the application by the client device is based on the user data.