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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2024
Rakuten Symphony, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Paromita Chintan Shah, Tokyo, JP;
Nagendra Shridhar Bykampadi, Tokyo, JP;
Krishna Pramod Adharapurapu, Tokyo, JP;
RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cloud-native function (CNF) authentication during the instantiation and bootstrapping of the CNF. According to embodiments, a method may be provided, including sending, by a supplicant to an authenticator during an instantiation and bootstrapping stage of a CNF, a message to initiate an Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS) protocol sequence, wherein an EAP-TLS authentication is performed with an authentication server based on the message; receiving, by the supplicant, a result of the EAP-TLS authentication from the authenticator, wherein the result of the EAP-TLS authentication originates from the authentication server, and wherein the authenticator is configured to control traffic of the CNF based on the result of the EAP-TLS authentication.