Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless telecommunications network authentication
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Application No.: US17754259Application Date: 2020-09-28
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Publication No.: US12160738B2Publication Date: 2024-12-03
- Inventor: Ruth Brown , Paul Wright
- Applicant: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
- Applicant Address: GB London
- Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
- Current Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
- Current Assignee Address: GB London
- Agency: PRANGER LAW PC
- Priority: EP19201209 20191002
- International Application: PCT/EP2020/077124 WO 20200928
- International Announcement: WO2021/063896 WO 20210408
- Main IPC: H04W12/069
- IPC: H04W12/069

Abstract:
A method of authenticating User Equipment (UE) to a wireless telecommunications network, wherein the UE is subscribed to a first wireless telecommunications network, and authenticating being performed so as to subscribe the UE to a second wireless telecommunications network, and wherein there is an absence of a roaming capability between the first wireless telecommunications network and the second wireless telecommunications network for the UE, the method including generating, at the first wireless telecommunications network, a network key for authenticating the UE at the second wireless telecommunications network; loading the generated network key to the second wireless telecommunications network; subsequently communicating the generated network key to the UE from the first wireless telecommunications network; and authenticating the UE at the second wireless telecommunications network by communicating the network key from the UE to the second wireless telecommunications network, thereby to permit the UE to subscribe to the second wireless telecommunications network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220360987A1 WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AUTHENTICATION Public/Granted day:2022-11-10
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