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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2008
Applicants:
John Stenfelt, Göteborg, SE;
Dirk Kopplin, Ytterby, SE;
Hans Mattsson, Bollebygd, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/60 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/0892 (2013.01); H04L 67/14 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention handles Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) applications in an efficient manner. The present invention is a session aware Diameter relay agent that correlates sessions that require binding and relay sessions to the same AAA server, such as a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) server. In one embodiment, the relay agent may be arranged to select a Diameter server and forward the user equipment (UE) request to the respective server while registering the server selection. The Diameter server may be a PCRF server.