Patent ID: 9203827
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for determining and representing one or more authentication requirements for at least one valid service flow of one or more information centric network (ICN) based services, the method comprising: capturing, by an authentication management computing device, nature of one or more contents to be delivered as a part of the one or more ICN based services, one or more trust relationships, one or more authentication scope definitions and one or more content delivery options from a input service specification; representing, by the authentication management computing device, one or more possible service flows based on the nature of the one or more contents and the one or more content delivery options, wherein the one or more possible service flows are extracted from a repository; inferring, by the authentication management computing device, a trust level between two or more functional entities involved in the one or more ICN based services and an authentication scope of one or more users from the one or more trust relationships and authentication scope definitions; inferring, by the authentication management computing device, one or more valid inter-connections and operations between the two or more functional entities based on the trust level and authentication scope; and representing, by the authentication management computing device, the at least one valid service flow based on the one or more valid inter-connections and operations, wherein the at least one valid service flow is constrained by the one or more authentication requirements.