Dynamic User Authentication for Location-Aware Traffic Steering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing secure communication session technologies lack dynamicity in initiation, termination, and session management, particularly in combining location detection and enterprise-directed flow detection, and do not support session memory capabilities or multiple authentication methods, leading to inefficient resource usage and limited user experience.
Innovation Solution
Implementing techniques that combine trusted network detection with IP and DNS flow detection, decouple authentication from session establishment, and utilize session-memory capabilities to dynamically manage secure communication sessions based on device location and enterprise-directed flows, allowing for seamless and efficient session management through token-based authentication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If secure communication sessions are initiated based on pre-defined rules, then session initiation automation is improved, but session dynamicity and adaptability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic session management by transitioning from static pre-defined rules to real-time condition-based decision making. The system continuously monitors device location, network conditions, and user activity to dynamically initiate, pause, or terminate secure sessions. This allows the session state to adapt flexibly to changing conditions while maintaining automated operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring session conditions (location, network state, user activity) and using this information to adjust session behavior in real-time. The monitoring component provides ongoing feedback about session validity and appropriateness, enabling the system to respond dynamically to changing conditions while maintaining automated control.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple authentication methods are implemented, then user experience and flexibility are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal authentication framework that supports multiple authentication methods (biometric, token-based, certificate-based) through a single unified system architecture. This multi-functional approach allows the same authentication component to handle various authentication types, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining flexibility and user choice.
Solution Approach 2:
The system manages authentication method complexity by dynamically selecting and switching between different authentication parameters based on session context, user preferences, and security requirements. This allows the system to present only the relevant authentication options for each situation, reducing perceived complexity while maintaining versatile authentication capabilities.
3Productivity
If session memory capabilities are added, then session resumption efficiency is improved, but resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements selective session memory storage by maintaining detailed session state information only for actively used or recently accessed sessions, while using summarized or cached information for less critical sessions. This local quality approach ensures high resumption efficiency for important sessions while minimizing overall memory resource consumption across the system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system manages session memory resources by implementing automatic session state expiration and cleanup mechanisms. Session memory is retained and recovered only when needed for resumption, while expired or inactive session data is automatically discarded. This allows efficient session resumption when required while preventing unbounded resource consumption over time.
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AI summary
Techniques for dynamically establishing, pausing, and/or terminating secure communication sessions. The techniques may include, detecting an occurrence of an authentication trigger event on a computing device and causing a user of the computing device to be authenticated for access to a resource that is to be accessed via a secure communication session. Based at least in part on authenticating the user for access to the resource, a token may be stored in a location that is accessible to a headend appliance associated with the secure communication session. The token may indicate that the user of the computing device is authenticated for access to the resource. In this way, at least partially responsive to detecting an occurrence of a networking trigger event, the secure communication session may be established between the computing device and the headend appliance to provide the computing device with access to the resource.