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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
May. 06, 2014
Alcatel Lucent Canada Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, CA;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
An apparatus, method and machine readable storage medium, for an authentication server such as a RADIUS server, for authenticating a subscriber are disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a request message including a plurality of attributes such as attribute value pairs (AVPs) having respective attribute names and respective attribute values; retrieving an authentication profile object; identifying a plurality of authentication attributes to use for authentication from the authentication profile object; extracting the plurality of authentication attribute values from the message; pre-processing one or more of the extracted attribute values; and authenticating the request message based on the pre-processed extracted attribute values.