France Telecom

Orange France

Orange

Patrick Bauban

Vincent Auvray

Etienne Annic

Cédric Goutard

Philippe Michon

Anne Boutroux

Rym Sahnoun

A method and apparatus are provided for configuring a multi-network telecommunications terminal, which communicates with a number of telecommunications networks offering a plurality of telecommunications services. The terminal includes a plurality of interfaces for accessing the services offered. When the terminal accesses one of the services offered, via one of the networks, the following steps are performed: a) determining the type of network with which the terminal is in the process of connecting, b) activating the access interface associated with the service which the terminal is intended to access, c) requesting, at the level of the activated access interface, configuration parameters which are dependent on the activated access interface and the network in the process of connection, d) extracting, at the level of a module for centralizing configuration parameters, the requested configuration parameters, e) obtaining, at level of the activated access interface, the extracted configuration parameters.

Method of configuring a multi-network terminal and an associated multi-network terminal

A system for accessing a packet-switching network (), which is adapted for the use of a simplified signature method. The system includes a supplementary server () which is independent of a proxy server () of an access provider () and a simplified signature module () which is provided in the supplementary server (). The proxy server () is equipped with an interface () which enables the connection of the proxy server to the supplementary server () and the transmission of at least the authentication requests sent by contacted service providers to the supplementary server () in order for the requests to be processed by the simplified signature module ().

Network access system which is adapted for the use of a simplified signature method, and server used to implement same

An authentication server automatically selects one of plural authentications identified by authentication identifiers to authorize access by a user to a service dispensed by a service server of a provider identified by a provider identifier via a communication network. The server includes a module for selecting an authentication identifier in a memory as a function of the provider identifier and the type of the terminal and/or the network type of the communication network, and a module for authenticating the user by launching an authentication process associated with the authentication identifier.

Automatic authentication selection server

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Caen, France

Patrick Bauban