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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7983418 | AAA support for DHCP A basic idea is to use the AAA infrastructure to assign (S3) an appropriate DHCP server to DHCP client for the DHCP service, and transferring DHCP-related information over the AAA infrastructure for authenticating (S1) and authorizing (S4) the D... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7613299 | Cryptographic techniques for a communications network Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7515713 | Secure generation of temporary mobile station identifiers In a disclosed embodiment, a visitor location register first initializes an assignment table to store N entries. Next, the visitor location register waits until a TMSI assignment is needed. Then, a counter is maintained in memory and is incremented. The value of the... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7424284 | Secure network/service access A method of authenticating a user access network to a mobile node, where the mobile node wishes to access a service via the access network, the method comprising: establishing a secure transport channel between the mobile node and ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7395050 | Method and system for authenticating user of data transfer device The invention relates to a method and system for authenticating a user of a data transfer device (such as a terminal in a wireless local area network, i.e. WLAN). The method comprises: setting up a data transfer connection from the data transfer device to a service ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7362781 | Wireless methods and devices employing steganography Wireless devices and methods employ steganography to convey auxiliary data in addition to audio information. An exemplary application is a battery-powered cell phone, having, e.g., a microphone, a speaker, a modulator, an antenna, and an RF amplifier. The steganogra... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353022 | Wireless mobile call location and delivery for non-geographic numbers A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number (982) which is either a non-geographic directory number or a non-dialable directory number. A call is initiated from a wireline telephone (155) to a geographic-based... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349377 | Method, system and system entities for providing location privacy in communication networks The present invention concerns a method for providing location privacy for a terminal node (MN) in communication with a communication partner node (CN) in a communication network system comprising at least a first communication network (HN, VN), wherein a respective... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340612 | Method for device registration in a wireless home network A method for registering a device in a wireless network comprising a central controller. The method includes the step of asking a user whether he wants to install a new network or install a device on the network. In the case of installing a new network, the user ent... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324645 | Method to authenticate a mobile station, a communications system and a mobile station A method to authenticate a mobile station B in a mobile network, so that the mobile station B is authenticated and an encryption key is agreed between mobile stations A and B using user data exchange during call setup. More specifically the mobile station B is authe... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7308099 | Device and method for producing an encoded audio and/or video data stream An apparatus for generating an encrypted data stream representing an audio and/or video signal comprises an encoder for encoding an input signal to generate a data stream with a predefined data stream syntax as output signal. The apparatus further comprises an encry... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298847 | Secure key distribution protocol in AAA for mobile IP A security key distribution and authentication protocol in AAA for Mobile IP has been described. In order to guarantee the secure protocol, messages between the MN, FA, AAAF, AAAH, and HA are encrypted and signed using public/private keys. IPSEC or PKI infrastructur... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293289 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for detection of a security breach in a network A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for detecting a security breach in a network comprising an access point and a plurality of transceivers each having a different media access control address comprises, at one of the transceivers, receiving a signal fr... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7272383 | System and method for controlling a mobile terminal using a digital signature A mobile terminal control system using a digital signature. The system including a server for preparing a command message for a relevant mobile terminal according to mobile terminal status information set by a user, adding a digital signature to the prepared command... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7245901 | Mobile phone with internal accounting A mobile phone system with a mobile phone having internal accounting capabilities for real time call debiting to account for the billing parameters of a mobile phone unit that is operated in a multi zone communication network with a complex rate structure, the mobil... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243231 | Sensory verification of shared data In one embodiment, a method for sensory verification comprises exchanging at least one data item with a computing unit and selecting a sequence number. Such selection may be accomplished by generation of the sequence number or manual entry by the user. Thereafter, a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239865 | Proxy authentication for tethered devices Methods and apparatus are presented herein for allowing a wireless communication device to perform a proxy authentication on behalf of a tethered device. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237112 | Information processing system A system for preventing recorded data from being illicitly read out and analyzed. An Internet connection interface 11 transmits a program executed by an adapter 7 to an authentication station, whilst receiving the program in an encrypted form from the ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231046 | Method for controlling connections to a mobile station The present invention is a novel and improved method for managing in a single location the ciphering keys and algorithms used for encrypting or ciphering the communications of a specific mobile station with multiple core networks or core network entities. Further an... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7215943 | Mobile terminal identity protection through home location register modification Secure access by a mobile wireless terminal of a wireless telephony network is achieved by having a Home Location Register store the terminal's temporary and permanent identities. Upon accessing the network following initial registration, the terminal sends a tempor... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213144 | Efficient security association establishment negotiation technique A Security Association establishment negotiation technique includes forwarding identifying information from a Mobile Node via a first interface to a first network element. Negotiations are then initiated between the first network element and a second network element... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203493 | Wireless communication system A call in request is transmitted from a wireless base station to a wireless communication terminal apparatus when there is a call in from a service center. If the wireless communication terminal apparatus does not respond, the wireless base station is reset and, aft... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7194765 | Challenge-response user authentication A challenge-response user-authentication procedure masks an authentication center's expected response (XRES) utilizing a masking function (ƒ) and by transmitting a random challenge and a masked expected response (XRES′) instead of the XRES to an intermediate part... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194002 | Peer-to-peer based network performance measurement and analysis system and method for large scale networks A network performance (e.g., latency and bandwidth) measurement infrastructure for large scale networks based on self-organized probing groups of devices. Each group of devices has a lead device that measures network characteristics, and then shares the measurement ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187920 | Connection service providing system and connection service providing method A network including a connection service providing system according to the present invention comprises mobile terminals 1 used by users, electronic devices 3, a wireless LAN base station 5, a connection-service-providing server 10, public... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184764 | Method and apparatus for supporting cellular data communication to roaming mobile telephony devices A cellular data communication interfacing apparatus, for association with a mobile network and for supporting cellular data communication to roaming mobile telephony devices, comprises a data request analyzer, a service network selector, and an interfacing engine. E... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181530 | Rogue AP detection A method of detecting a rogue access point is disclosed. A message is directed from a supplicant to a network through an access point. A network response message is received by the supplicant from the access point. A step of determining whether the access point is o... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181196 | Performing authentication in a communications system A method and apparatus for performing authentication in a communications system is provided. The method includes receiving a request for authentication from a server, the request for authentication including a first and a second random challenge, and comparing the f... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178027 | System and method for securely copying a cryptographic key A system and method are provided in which a cryptographic key stored in a secure token such as a smart card can be copied to another smart card with high security and assurance with no intermediary being able to see what is being transferred. According to the invent... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174456 | Fast authentication and access control method for mobile networking A fast authentication and access control method of authenticating a network access device to a communications network having an access point communicating with a remote authentication (home AAA) server for the network access device. The method includes the step of r... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7165173 | System and method for secure over-the-air administration of a wireless mobile station There is disclosed a mobile station for securely communicating with base stations in a wireless network and receiving at least one of a software program, a software correction patch and provisioning data from a server in the wireless network. The mobile station comp... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158947 | Method for selectively blocking remote purchase requests A method for partially verifying the legitimacy of a remote purchase request based on a card number from a card issuing financial institution. The method includes receiving and storing a first purchase request information set including an origin and a card number. F... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7137003 | Subscriber identity module verification during power management Power management techniques for a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) of a wireless communication device (WCD) are described tat make use of a unique identifier for the SIM. In particu1ar a processor within the WCD reads a first unique identifier from the SIM when powe... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133526 | System and method for providing WLAN security through synchronized update and rotation of WEP keys A system and method are disclosed that overcome deficiencies of prior art IEEE 802.11 WEP key management schemes. Preferred embodiments of the present system and method update WEP keys and rotate transmission key indices in a synchronized manner and on a frequent ba... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131006 | Cryptographic techniques for a communications network Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127233 | Technique for controlling fraudulent use of a telecommunication service including information assistance The phone number used by a caller accessing a telecommunication service is derived. For example, this phone number may be used to look up in a first database the name of the user registered with the service, and in a second database the name of the subscriber assign... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127234 | Radio LAN access authentication system A wireless LAN access authentication system capable of shortening the time required for an access authentication procedure of a radio terminal apparatus. In this wireless LAN access authentication system, when a radio terminal apparatus 116 of a user who has ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120422 | Method, element and system for securing communication between two parties A method of securing communication between a first party and a second party includes defining a criteria for selecting one of a plurality of different security methods. One of the plurality of different security methods is selected in accordance with the defined cri... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7107620 | Authentication in a packet data network Authentication method for authenticating a mobile node to a packet data network, in which a shared secret for both the mobile node and the packet data network is arranged by using a shared secret of the mobile node and a telecommunications network authentication cen... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107051 | Technique to establish wireless session keys suitable for roaming A method and an apparatus for establishing secured roaming among wireless devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first access point requests a first ticket from an authentication server and uses that first ticket to establish a first secured session with a wire... | 09/12/2006 |
