Patent ID: 8191106

Claim:
A system for network access security policy management of multimodal access to a converged network, the system comprising: an inter-technology change-off monitoring entity (ICME) for detecting an inter-technology change-off of a multimodal device from a first access technology of the converged network to a second access technology of the converged network, and for transmitting an inter-technology change-off message; a policy database for storing a plurality of access technology policies; and a policy manager for receiving said inter-technology change-off message from the ICME, for searching said policy database for an access technology policy corresponding to said second access technology, for determining appropriate policies to be enforced, and for distributing said appropriate policies to at least one policy enforcement point (PEF) for enforcing said appropriate policies in respect of access by the multimodal device to the converged network, wherein at least one of the ICME and the policy manager is implemented in hardware.