Patent ID: 8554178

Claim:
A method comprising: a server receiving a first message from a first foreign agent, wherein via the first message the first foreign agent seeks to authenticate a first wireless communication device (WCD); responsive to receiving the first message, the server determining that the first WCD is to be subject to, at a home agent, a first filter, wherein the first filter represents rules for the home agent to apply data packets of to the first WCD's communication; responsive to determining that the first WCD is to be subject to, at the home agent, the first filter, the server transmitting a second message to the first foreign agent, wherein the second message includes an attribute that contains a representation of the first filter; the server receiving a third message from the first foreign agent, wherein the third message includes (i) accounting information associated with the first WCD, (ii) an address of the home agent, and (iii) the attribute that contains the representation of the first filter; and responsive to receiving the third message, the server transmitting a fourth message to the home agent, wherein the fourth message contains the representation of the first filter and requests the home agent to apply the first filter to at least some communications associated with the first WCD, such that the home agent does not perform home agent authentication for the first WCD.