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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2013
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

George Foti, Dollard des Ormeaux, CA;

Peter Hedman, Helsingborg, SE;

Juan Antonio Sanchez Herrero, Madrid, ES;

Maria Esther Bas Sanchez, Madrid, ES;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04W 8/10 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 8/26 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04L 61/106 (2013.01); H04W 4/005 (2013.01); H04W 8/10 (2013.01); H04W 76/021 (2013.01); H04W 8/26 (2013.01); H04W 76/022 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one aspect of the teachings herein, a token is logically bound to an external identifier and provided to a wireless device via triggering signaling sent to the wireless device through an access network. The wireless device is configured to send registration signaling through the access network to a service provider network, in response to the triggering signaling and to return the token in such signaling. With this advantageous approach, the service provider network recognizes the token returned from the wireless device and thereby learns the association between a service provider network identifier that is received in the registration signaling for identifying the wireless device with respect to a service provided by the service provider network, and an external identifier assigned by the access network for use by the service provider network in identifying the wireless device to the access network.


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