Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Siemens Enterprise Communications Gmbh & Co. Kg

Hannes Tschofenig

Dirk Kröselberg

Jouni Korhonen

Domagoj Premec

Pasi Ismo Eronen

Jochen Grimminger

Murugaraj Shanmugam

Silke Holtmanns

Maximilian Riegel

Wolf-Dietrich Moeller

Richard Wisenöcker

Richard Wisenoecker

Dirk Kroselberg

Dirk Kroeselberg

Mayutan Arumaithurai

Services are provided for terminal devices, each having a TPM module. The TPM module of a terminal device transmits a service request with an ID assertion signed by a configurable credential to a server for the purpose of accessing the services of the server.

Method and system for the provision of services for terminal devices

There is provided an intra-realm AAA (authentication, authorization and accounting) fallback mechanism, wherein the single global realm may be divided in one or more sub-realms. The thus presented mechanism exemplarily comprises detecting a failure of an authentication server serving at least one authentication client within a first sub-realm of a single-realm authentication system, and routing authentication messages of the at least one authentication client to a fallback authentication server within a second sub-realm of the single-realm authentication system, wherein routing may exemplarily comprise sub-realm based source routing.

Intra-realm AAA fallback mechanism

A method provides service quality in a WiMAX communication network, and a method selects an access transport resource control function by a guideline decision-making function in a communication network. According to a method for providing service quality on an air interface of an access network in a WiMAX communication network by an application function, the application function aims to provide a user of the WiMAX communication network with a service quality-related application. The desired service quality is signaled by an authentication, authorization and accounting infrastructure of the WiMAX communication network.

Method for providing service quality in a WiMAX communication network, and method for selecting an access transport resource control function by means of a guideline decision-making function in a communication network

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate authentication of a request, such as by a mobile terminal, while also supplying information about the user to a service, website, application or the like A method, apparatus and computer program product may provide for interworking a bootstrapping architecture, such as Generic Bootstrapping Architecture, and a shared identity service, such as OpenID architecture In this regard, a method, apparatus and computer program product may provide for a secure session with a service provider through Generic Bootstrapping Architecture while being able to supply the service provider with the user information and/or accessing a user account using OpenID architecture.

User identity management for permitting interworking of a bootstrapping architecture and a shared identity service

A network element, method and computer program product is enabled to perform interactive connectivity checks in a mobility environment. Specifically, a network element comprises a discovery unit configured to identify a candidate defined as a combination of an internet protocol address and a port which the network element can use to communicate with a particular other network element. The network further comprises a mobile internet protocol signaling unit configured to submit a candidate identified by the discovery unit and to receive a candidate related to the other network element, and a simple traversal underneath network address translators protocol enabled unit configured to perform a connectivity check for a pair constituted by the submitted candidate and the received candidate by using the simple traversal underneath network address translators protocol.

Performing interactive connectivity checks in a mobility environment

The embodiments relate to a method for providing at least one REL (Rights Expression Language) token, the REL-token or tokens being provided in a message by a MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) protocol.

Method and system for providing a REL token

A network element, method and computer program product enable to reduce the need to send keep-alive messages when elements have to be traversed. Specifically, a network element comprises a port allocation request unit configured to request from a server over the transmission control protocol the allocation of a user datagram protocol port having a destination determined to take care of traffic for the network element. The network element further comprises a registration unit configured to create a message for requesting internet protocol registration and to send the message over the transmission control protocol.

Reducing keep-alive messages in connection with element traversal by relay mechanism

A method of using a computer network for Dynamic Discovery of Quality of Service Nodes is provided. The method comprises requesting for a level of Quality of Service (QoS) of communication for a service of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) by a Application Service Provider (ASP). The request is based on a Quality of Service by Reference (QoSbyR) information that is received by the ASP from a user. The QoSbyR information comprises a ISP location information and a level of Quality of Service information.

Dynamic discovery of quality of service nodes

A method for transmitting data in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) including transmitting a WLAN message between a terminal device and an access node of the WLAN network in the Layer 2 protocol layer. An Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) message is transmitted in the WLAN message. The EAP message includes a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message having SIP authentication data.

Method for transmitting data in a WLAN network

A mobile station is designed, as a gateway for one or several mobile terminals, to establish a connection between the mobile terminal(s) and an access network. The mobile station supports a network-based mobility management such that the mobile station acts as a client instead of the mobile terminals during communication with a home agent of a home network or intermediate network connected to the access network in the framework of a mobile IP connection.

Mobile station as a gateway for mobile terminals to an access network, and method for registering the mobile station and the mobile terminals in a network

The invention relates to a method for transmitting data in a WLAN network (Wireless Local Area Network), whereby WLAN messages are transmitted in the Layer 2 protocol layer between a terminal and an access node of the WLAN network. EAP messages (Extensible Authentication Protocol) are transmitted in the WLAN messages, said EAP messages containing SIP messages (Session Initiation Protocol) with SIP authentication data.

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