Cisco Technology, Inc.

Matthew Stephen MacPherson

Jerome Henry

Bart A Brinckman

Mark Grayson

Malcolm Muir Smith

Carlos M Pignataro

Nagendra Kumar Nainar

Ali Sajassi

Eric Albin Voit

Robert E Barton

David A Maluf

Sri Gundavelli

Robert R Sealey

Godfrey Tan

Stateless network address privacy may be provided. A data packing may be received with an obfuscated destination address and an un-obfuscated source address. An un-obfuscated destination address may be determined based on the obfuscated destination address. An obfuscated source address may be determined based on the un-obfuscated source address. The obfuscated destination address may be replaced with the un-obfuscated destination address and the un-obfuscated source address may be replaced with the obfuscated source address. The packet may be forwarded.

Stateless network address privacy (SNAP)

The disclosed technology relates to a process of evaluating any number of different identity providers (IDPs) and their respective set of credentials that are used to authenticate corresponding users to assist with the onboarding of the different IDPs in connection with Wi-Fi identity federations. In particular, the process allows a person's electronic identity and attributes (stored across one or more IDPs) to be determined once using a standard. Once trust has been established for the user, that trust can then be utilized across a number of different systems (e.g., Single-sign on). The same trust determination can be used without the need for the authenticity of the user identity to be re-evaluated with each new access request.

Wireless LAN (WLAN) public identity federation trust architecture

Presented herein are techniques to facilitate wireless authorization based on in-line assurance and tariffing information. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a home network, a request to authorize access of a roaming subscriber for a visited network; determining whether the request includes visited network charging information and visited network metric information; based on determining that the request includes the visited network charging information and the visited network metric information, determining whether one or more visited network metrics satisfy one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber; and based on determining that the one or more visited network metrics satisfy the one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber, authorizing access of the roaming subscriber for the visited network.

Wireless authorization and access network-neutral advice of charge techniques

A method includes receiving, at an access node of a local network, a connection request from a device and in response to the connection request, establishing a connection with an identity provider. The device, the access node, the local network, and the identity provider are members of an identity federation. The method further includes receiving an indication that the device previously violated a network policy of a network different from the local network and after the device is authenticated with the identity provider, determining, by the access node and based on the indication, whether to allow the device to communicate over the access node.

User trust scoring for network access control

A method for authenticating an end user in a network environment is provided that includes positioning an identification element in a first device that is operable to provide an interface for an end user. The first device is further operable to communicate with an internet protocol (IP) network and with a second device. The end user is then authenticated with a selected one of the first and second devices through the IP network using the identification element such that the end user may operate the first and second devices in multiple access networks that cooperate to provide connectivity to the end user. Each of the access networks is operable to facilitate communications between the end user and the IP network.

System and method for providing access to a network in a communications environment

Growing community of inventors

Cary, NC, United States of America

Matthew Stephen MacPherson