Patent ID: 8543814

Claim:
A method, comprising: authenticating, with a mobile terminal including an identity module, to a service provider to obtain generic bootstrapping architecture credentials specific to the service provider using only authentication information provided from the identity module in the mobile terminal; transferring the generic bootstrapping architecture credentials specific to the service provider from the mobile terminal via a local link to a personal computer, wherein a communication between the mobile terminal and the personal computer is established via a generic authentication server architecture component on the mobile terminal and a generic authentication client architecture component on the personal computer, wherein the generic bootstrapping architecture credentials specific to the service provider are based upon at least one parameter representative of a universal subscriber identity module vector contained in the identity module of the mobile terminal; attempting, by the personal computer, to access the service provider; receiving an authentication request in the personal computer from the service provider in response to the access attempt; and querying, with the generic authentication client architecture component in the personal computer, the generic authentication server architecture component in the mobile terminal for the generic bootstrapping architecture credentials, wherein the local link comprises one or more of a cable, an infrared connection, and a wireless connection, wherein querying further comprises: sending a message from the generic authentication client architecture component in the personal computer to the generic authentication server architecture component in the mobile terminal containing an identification for the service provider; requesting, with the generic authentication server architecture component in the mobile terminal, from a bootstrapping server function, to establish the credentials; establishing the generic bootstrapping architecture credentials between the bootstrapping server function and the generic authentication server architecture component in the mobile terminal; and sending the credentials from the generic authentication server architecture component in the mobile terminal to the generic authentication client architecture component in the personal computer.