Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Jeffrey W Hughes

Andrew L Bates

Jared M Allison

Brent W Maier

Thomas C Adams

A system includes a remote authentication dial in user service (RADIUS) server in communication with a network access server. The network access server provides an authentication request to the RADIUS server. The authentication request includes at least a user identifier and a device identifier. The RADIUS server determines an authentication format utilized by the network access server based on the received authentication request. The system may also determine an authorization level to provide with an authentication response.

Dynamic radius

A dynamic authentication broker is configured to process authentication requests received from a network access server formatted in any of a plurality of protocols and received over any of a plurality of ports. Processing authentication requests may include authenticating and/or authorizing a particular user, user device and/or network access server.

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Jeffrey W Hughes