Patent ID: 7562224
Filing Date: 2009-07-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method to optimize authenticated multi-session establishment for a single supplicant, comprising: authenticating the supplicant with an authentication server using an authenticator of the supplicant, wherein the supplicant is a wireless access point, the authenticator is a switch port coupling the access point to a backbone network coupling the switch port to the authentication server; determining by the authentication server at least one other session for the supplicant; initiating by the authentication server the at least one other session for the supplicant with an authenticator for the at least one other session, wherein a one of the at least one other session is established as a session between a wireless domain server and the access point; distributing a first session key by the authentication server to the switch port for establishing a session between the access point and the switch port; the initiating the at least one other session with the wireless domain server further comprises distributing a second session key by the authentication server to the wireless domain server; and distributing a set of keys to the access point by the authentication server; wherein the set of keys comprises a first key corresponding to the first session key and a second key corresponding to the second session key.