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 8):
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, perform operations, the operations comprising:\n intercepting an authentication request comprising a second identification of a communication device; inserting a first identification of a virtual gateway into the authentication request, resulting in an updated authentication request; submitting the first identification and the second identification in the updated authentication request to an authentication system, wherein the authentication system determines whether the updated authentication request is received from an expected network element that has a physical association with the virtual gateway; and responsive to detecting that the updated authentication request is received from the expected network element:\n retrieving authentication information associated with subscription information for a communication device, according to the first and second identifications of the updated authentication request; and \n authenticating the communication device in response to detecting a match between the first and second identifications of the updated authentication request and the authentication information, \n wherein the authentication system denies service to the virtual gateway responsive to detecting that the authentication request is not received from the expected network element.

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): 0.6893646319662147
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.466563267752591
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6670844955448523
- Mean Citation Score: 178.47679499999995
- Max Citation Score: 228.1594
- Similarity Product: 216.52819378590584

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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