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Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010

Filed:

Oct. 07, 2002
Applicants:

Wayne N. Taylor, Durham, NC (US);

Joseph A. Salowey, Seattle, WA (US);

Michael A. Wright, Cary, NC (US);

Amitava Das, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

William C. Gossman, Seattle, WA (US);

Gopal K. Dommety, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wayne N. Taylor, Durham, NC (US);

Joseph A. Salowey, Seattle, WA (US);

Michael A. Wright, Cary, NC (US);

Amitava Das, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

William C. Gossman, Seattle, WA (US);

Gopal K. Dommety, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system for user authentication includes a gateway operable to receive a user authentication request in an Internet Protocol format from a server. The gateway communicates the user authentication request in a Signaling System 7 protocol to a user registry. The gateway is also operable to receive a user authentication response in the Signaling System 7 protocol from the user registry. The gateway communicates the user authentication response in the Internet Protocol format to the server.


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