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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2014
Geert Vanderhulst, Aarschot, BE;
Marc Van Den Broeck, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, BE;
Mohamed Ali Feki, Forest, BE;
Fahim Kawsar, Antwerp, BE;
Geert Vanderhulst, Aarschot, BE;
Marc Van Den Broeck, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, BE;
Mohamed Ali Feki, Forest, BE;
Fahim Kawsar, Antwerp, BE;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A capability for providing access control for a geo-fenced service (GFS) is presented herein. In general, a GFS is a network-hosted service having associated therewith a spatial region within which the network-hosted service may be accessed. The spatial region of the GFS may be defined based on one or more witnesses co-located at a location of the spatial region within which the GFS may be accessed, which are associated with the GFS in order to support access control for the GFS. The capability for providing access control for the GFS, based on a request by a user device to access the GFS, uses one or more co-located witnesses associated with the GFS to verify the presence of the user device within the spatial region within which the GFS may be accessed before granting access by the user device to the GFS.