Ruckus IP Holdings LLC

Liangyi Huang

Yao Wen Chang

Pin Hsiao

Ya-Ling Yang

During operation, a computer system may receive, from an electronic device, a login request, where the login request includes or specifies an authentication realm in a network. Then, the computer system may compute whether the authentication realm at least partially matches a predefined authentication realm in the network, where the predefined authentication realm in the network includes at least one wildcard element, and where the partial match is for elements in the predefined authentication realm other than the at least one wildcard element. When there is a partial match, the computer system may provide, to a second computer system, an authentication request based at least in part on the login request. Next, the computer system may receive, from the second computer system, an authentication response. When the authentication response indicates successful authentication, the computer system may provide, to the electronic device, a login response.

Virtual authentication realm specified by wildcard elements

During operation, a computer system may receive, from an electronic device, an access request to access a shared network in a multi-tenant system, where the electronic device associated with a tenant in the multi-tenant system. Then, the computer system may identify a second computer system, which may be associated with an MSP of the shared network and that provides authentication and/or authorization to the shared network for users associated with the tenant. Moreover, the computer system may provide, to the second computer system, an authorization request for the electronic device. Next, the computer system may receive, from the second computer system, an authorization response, where the authorization response approves access by the electronic device to the shared network. Furthermore, the computer system may provide, to the electronic device, an access response, where the access response includes information specifying access privileges of the electronic device in the shared network.

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