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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2018
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Jun Wang, Poway, CA (US);
Arungundram Mahendran, San Diego, CA (US);
Vidya Narayanan, San Jose, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An authentication server may be adapted to (a) authenticate an authentication peer seeking to establish communications via a first network access node; (b) retrieve user profile information associated with the authentication peer; and/or (c) send the user profile information to a network gateway node that facilitates communication services for the authentication peer. A PMIP network node may be adapted to (a) provide wireless network connectivity to an authentication peer via a first network access node; (b) provide a PMIP key to both ends of a PMIP tunnel between the first network access node and a PMIP network node used to provide communications to the authentication peer; (c) provide the PMIP key to a first authenticator associated the first network access node; (d) receive a request at the PMIP network node from a requesting entity to reroute communications for the authentication peer; and/or (e) verify whether the requesting entity knows the PMIP key.