Patent ID: 7917124

Claim:
A secure access gateway for a telecommunications architecture, the access gateway comprising: a profiling database comprising third party authorization data; a subscriber communication interface; a service provider communication interface; an application communication interface; a service request handler coupled to the subscriber communication interface and the profiling database, the service request handler operable to: receive a communication network access request through the subscriber communication interface, wherein the communication network access request comprises an access request for information provided by a communication network service provider; extract a subscriber device identifier from the communication network access request, wherein the subscriber device identifier identifies a subscriber device requesting access to the information provided by the communication network service provider; search the profiling database for an authorized subscriber device identifier record associated with the subscriber device identifier; and when the authorized subscriber device identifier record exists, forward the communication network access request to the communication network service provider through the service provider communication interface; a capability hander coupled to the subscriber communication interface, the capability handler operable to: receive an exposed service request through the application communication interface, wherein the exposed service request comprises a use request for a telecommunication service established in the telecommunications architecture and exposed through a service broker; authenticate the exposed service request to obtain a certificate identifier from the exposed service request; search the profiling database for an authorized third party application associated to the certificate identifier; and when the authorized third party application exists, forward the exposed service request to the service broker.