Client aware authentication in a wireless portal system
First Claim
1. A client aware authentication system in a wireless network, comprising:
- a wireless server; and
a plurality of classes of wireless clients, each of said classes of wireless clients having unique authentication parameters.
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Abstract
A wireless portal system having a wireless server with a client aware authentication system. The client aware authentication system includes logic for automatically identifying client wireless devices connecting to the wireless server by using particular characteristics of the client in granting service connection requests from the client to the server. Depending on the client type, one or more, client-specific authentication modules are selected for the Client. In this way, the invention provides dynamic selection of authentication modules based on the Client type of an identified client. In one embodiment of the invention, the client aware authentication system includes extensible modular authentication parameters that allows the client to add-on client information characteristics which are not already pre-stored in the wireless server.
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26 Claims
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1. A client aware authentication system in a wireless network, comprising:
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a wireless server; and
a plurality of classes of wireless clients, each of said classes of wireless clients having unique authentication parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A wireless server system, comprising:
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a plurality of authentication modules each providing respective authentication parameters pertinent to a type of client; and
an authentication service, in response to receiving a particular client type associated with a particular wireless device, for dynamically selecting an authentication module of said plurality of authentication modules based on said particular client type, wherein said authentication service is also for applying a selected authentication module to said particular wireless device for the authentication thereof. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A wireless server, comprising:
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a client aware authentication service logic;
a plurality of client aware authentication modules;
a client data storage module for storing client type information; and
a session service module for storing transient session information for a client requesting authentication to said wireless server. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A client aware authentication module, comprising
a plurality of client aware characteristics modules; - and
client aware authentication selection logic. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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