Cross Access Login Controller for Seamless Network Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face repetitive and error-prone login procedures when accessing visited networks, requiring secure credential transfer and authentication, which is inconvenient and resource-intensive for both users and service providers.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an automated transparent login system that correlates user credentials across different networks, allowing seamless access by storing and associating identifying details with base credentials, and using additional validation mechanisms like location correlation and SMS verification for secure registration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually authenticate to visited networks using traditional methods, then network security is maintained through credential verification, but user convenience deteriorates due to repetitive and error-prone login procedures
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-registering user equipment parameters (MAC address, IMEI, IMSI) in the visited network's data repository before actual network access is needed. This advance registration enables automated authentication later, eliminating manual login while maintaining security through pre-verified credentials.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service authentication where the network infrastructure automatically correlates user credentials and equipment parameters without requiring user intervention. The automated login process performs credential verification and network access granting independently, freeing users from repetitive manual authentication while maintaining security through systematic verification.
2Reliability
If service providers deploy separate backoffice environments for each network type, then network security and control are maintained, but infrastructure complexity and investment increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal data repository architecture that serves multiple network types (home network and visited networks) with a single infrastructure. This unified repository stores and manages credentials for various access types (Wi-Fi, Cellular, Wi-Max, DSL) centrally, eliminating the need for separate backoffice environments while maintaining network-specific control through parameter-based credential association.
Solution Approach 2:
The data repository acts as an intermediary layer between the home network's subscriber profile repository and visited networks' authentication systems. It receives credentials from the home network, stores them with appropriate user equipment parameters, and provides automated authentication to visited networks, simplifying the overall architecture while maintaining security controls.
3Productivity
If automated transparent login is implemented, then user convenience improves by eliminating repetitive authentication, but system complexity increases due to credential correlation and validation mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates simplified copies of authentication functionality by implementing automated credential correlation based on user equipment parameters. Instead of complex real-time authentication protocols, the system uses pre-stored credential copies associated with device identifiers (MAC address, IMEI, IMSI) to enable rapid automated login, improving efficiency while managing complexity through standardized data structures.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods here may be used for authorizing network access including using by a server computer with a processor and memory, for receiving, through the gateway support node, a request, to access the first network associated with the gateway support node from a client device, wherein the request includes a client device identifier, sending a validation request of the client device identifier to the data storage server, receiving a validation response based on previously registered client device identifier information and previously registered credential information from a second network, from the data storage server and sending authorization approval to the gateway support node for the client device access request to the first network.