Patent ID: 9100384
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for accessing a heterogeneous network via a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), the method comprising: receiving, by an authentication serving gateway, an access request from a server, wherein the access request includes information relating to a target network that a terminal needs to access via the WLAN, wherein the heterogeneous network is the target network; determining, by the authentication serving gateway, the target network that the terminal needs to access according to the access request from the server, wherein a transmission protocol of the target network is different from that of the WLAN; converting, by the authentication serving gateway, the access request according to the transmission protocol of the target network; sending, by the authentication serving gateway, the converted access request to the target network; receiving, by the authentication serving gateway, an authentication result from the target network; and sending, by the authentication serving gateway, the authentication result to the server; wherein the access request from the server carries an access policy; and wherein the determining the target network that the terminal needs to access comprises determining the target network that the terminal needs to access according to the access policy in the access request.