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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Louis G. Samuel, Gloucester, GB;
Mark Grayson, Maidenhead, GB;
Bart A. Brinckman, Nevele, BE;
Robert E. Barton, Richmond, CA;
Carlos M. Pignataro, Cary, NC (US);
Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Morrisville, NC (US);
Matthew MacPherson, Cary, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Federation policy exchange is provided in response to receiving a sharing query from an Access Point (AP) indicating that an associated wireless network supports federated identities with data sharing, determining whether the sharing query is within sharing preferences; and in response to determining that the sharing query is within the sharing preferences, transmitting, to the AP, a positive response for identity sharing that authorizes collection and sharing of identity data with at least one entity identified in a sharing policy for the associated wireless network. In various embodiments, federation policy exchange includes transmitting a support notification, via an AP, indicating support for federated identities with data sharing within a wireless network associated with the AP; and in response to receiving a first identify sharing preference from a User Equipment (UE) that indicates that negotiation is preferred, transmitting a sharing policy for the wireless network to the UE.