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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1999
Jean-René Bouvier, Saint-Nazaire-lés-Eymes, FR;
John O'Connell, Grenoble, FR;
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A generic access service is provided in a telephone system to enable users to get dialup access to different network access services. User profile data showing which network access services a user subscribes to is held on a database accessible to the service control subsystem of the telephone system. Upon detection of a particular phone number assigned to the generic access service an authentication procedure is initiated in the service control subsystem to identify the user. Once identified, the service control subsystem uses the user profile data to determine what access services are available to that user. Thereafter, a particular access service is selected and the number of a corresponding network access server derived.