5G Secondary Authentication for Content Payment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current web-based payment systems either require user authentication and registration or rely on unreliable automatic identification for accounting, lacking a solution for reliable user identification without user interaction or pre-registration while ensuring fee accounting for digital content.
Innovation Solution
The enhanced 5G secondary authentication mechanism, integrated with a payment service network, allows for secure and reliable user identification through a persistent ID, enabling access to online content and payment without prior registration, using a Policy Control Function and AAA server to authenticate and authorize user equipment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If web-based payment systems use automatic identification for accounting, then user interaction is minimized, but identification reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mobile network authentication system as an intermediary between the payment system and user identification. The mobile network's authentication server verifies device identity through carrier-grade authentication mechanisms, providing reliable identification without requiring direct user interaction with the payment system. This mediator resolves the contradiction by combining automated operation with trustworthy verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary authentication of the user device through the mobile network before the actual payment transaction occurs. The device is authenticated and a persistent identifier is established in advance, so that during the payment process, reliable identification is already secured without requiring additional user interaction at the point of purchase.
2Reliability
If payment systems require user registration and authentication, then identification reliability is improved, but device complexity and user interaction increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the payment system authentication with the existing mobile network authentication infrastructure. Instead of creating a separate registration and authentication system, the solution combines both functions by leveraging the mobile carrier's proven authentication mechanisms, thereby maintaining reliability while reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile network authentication system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides device identification, verifies user identity, enables payment authorization, and establishes persistent tracking. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate registration systems, reducing complexity while maintaining or improving reliability through a unified authentication approach.
3Ease of operation
If payment systems rely on buyer system identification without user interaction, then ease of operation is improved, but measurement precision of user identity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile network authentication server acts as an intermediary that enhances the precision of user identity measurement. While the payment system only needs to interact with the automated authentication interface, the mobile network's authentication mechanisms provide precise verification of device identity and user identity through carrier-grade security protocols, resolving the contradiction between automated operation and accurate identification.
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AI summary
Providing a method for providing paid access to online content, the method comprising: a) sending, by a user equipment (101), a signal requesting the online content from a content provider (120), preferably a web server (121) of the content provider (120); b) receiving, by the user equipment (101), a response signal with an address of a payment system (130);, it is an objective of the present invention to provide a content payment authentication with improved reliability without a need for prior payment system registration. The objective is achieved by c) sending, by the user equipment, first session request signal, preferably a PDU session setup request signal, requesting a communication session, preferably a PDU session, with the payment system (130); d) determining, by a policy function (117), preferably by a Policy Control Function of a public land mobile network (110) of the user equipment (101), an address of an authentication server (131) based on the address of the payment system (130), the authentication server preferably being a secondary authentication server and/or an AAA server, preferably remote from the public land mobile network (110); e) determining, by a core network managing function (140), a persistent ID of the user equipment (101) and providing the persistent ID to the authentication server (131) in a second session request signal (228), preferably in a SMF/AAA Session Request signal; f) determining, by the authentication server (131), the authenticity of the user equipment (101) using the persistent ID; g) determining, by the payment system (130), based on the persistent ID, a payment status of the user equipment (101) for the online content; and h) enabling at least one user option, preferably via a first session established in response to the first session request signal, at the user equipment (101) for the online content, based on the payment status, preferably at least one option to gain access to the online content, to pay for the online content, and/or to donate money to the content provider (120).