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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Robert E. Barton, Richmond, CA;
Carlos M. Pignataro, Cary, NC (US);
Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Morrisville, NC (US);
Malcolm M. Smith, Richardson, TX (US);
Mark Grayson, Maidenhead, GB;
Bart A. Brinckman, Nevele, BE;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Differentiated service in a federation-based access network is provided by receiving, with a request for access to a wireless network offering at least a two different service levels based on user identities, a set of user credentials from a User Equipment (UE); forwarding, for authentication, the set of user credentials to an identity provider in an identity federation with the wireless network, wherein the identity provider is independent from the wireless network; in response to determining that the set of user credentials indicate a realm known to be associated with a given service level, providing network access to the UE according to the given service level; and in response to determining that the given service level is not a highest service level in the wireless network, transmitting a list of preferred realms to the UE that are associated with higher service levels than the given service level.