Patent ID: 7047560

Claim:
In a computerized system that includes one or more wireless clients accessing a content server through a WAP server and a gateway interposed between the WAP server and the content server, all of which are part of a network, wherein access to the content server requires authentication credentials, the network maintaining gateway authentication credentials that specify one or more access privileges tailored to access through the gateway, a method of authenticating a client comprising a gateway performing the acts of: defining an authentication filter in a gateway that is remotely interposed between a remote WAP server client and a content server, wherein the authentication filter maps authentication credentials received from the remote WAP server client according to pre-established criteria, the authentication filter including a domain identifier and a username modifier, wherein the WAP server provides the authentication credentials to the gateway in response to a wireless client requesting access to a domain available to the content server; receiving the authentication credentials at the gateway from the remote WAP server client, wherein the authentication credentials include both a password and a user name corresponding to access permissions for accessing the resources at the content server through one or more domains; mapping the received authentication credentials based on the pre-established criteria, and by changing at least one of a domain and user name of the authentication credentials received from the remote client to different domain or user name, respectively, wherein the domain identifier is configured to change the domain, and wherein the username modifier is configured to change the user name that is received from the remote client by at least one of adding a suffix or prefix to the user name, adding new characters to a middle portion of the user name, replacing a portion of the user name, or deleting some characters from the user name; and sending the mapped authentication credentials to the network, the mapped authentication credentials including the password originally provided by the WAP server client and the at least one changed user name or domain, and such that the wireless client's access to the content source is based on the mapped authentication credentials comprising the at least one of a changed user name and a changed domain.