PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894491
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["455", "411000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for authentication of a communication device is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an authentication system can have a controller element that receives from a communication device by way of a packet-switched network an authentication request comprising a first identification (ID) of a virtual gateway and a second ID of the communication device. The virtual gateway and at least one network element of the packet-switched network can be provisioned to have a physical association with each other such that other network elements of the packet-switched network deny services to the virtual gateway when the virtual gateway attempts to operate outside of said physical association. From said physical association and the aforementioned IDs the controller element can authenticate the communication device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
An authentication system comprising:\n a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:\n determining whether an authentication request provided by a virtual gateway is received from an expected network element that is physically associated with the virtual gateway; \n denying service to the virtual gateway responsive to detecting that the authentication request is not received from the expected network element; and responsive to detecting that the authentication request is received from the expected network element:\n retrieving authentication information associated with subscription information for a communication device, according to first and second identifications, the first identification being of the virtual gateway and the second identification being of the communication device; and \n authenticating the communication device in response to detecting a match between the first and second identifications and the authentication information, \n wherein an initiating authentication request from the communication device comprises the second identification of the communication device, and wherein the authentication request provided by the virtual gateway comprises the initiating authentication request having added thereto the first identification of the virtual gateway.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01389
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15397786', '15139468', '11688601', '10766534', '15535092']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6888205363910989
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4692361698000182
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6668620997319908
- Mean Citation Score: 178.47679499999995
- Max Citation Score: 228.1594
- Similarity Product: 211.044999835074

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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