Mobile Application Identity Authentication for Wireless Network Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile device applications lack effective security measures to manage access to wireless network resources, leading to potential rogue applications consuming network resources and causing denial of service attacks or other disruptions.
Innovation Solution
A wireless network system assigns unique identities to mobile device applications, authenticates them, and identifies rogue applications, blocking or disabling them to prevent resource consumption, using a database to maintain lists of approved and disapproved applications, and instructing terminals or application stores to restrict or terminate disapproved applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If mobile device applications are allowed to access wireless network resources without authentication, then network accessibility and ease of operation are improved, but network security and reliability deteriorate due to rogue applications consuming resources and causing denial of service attacks
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication of mobile device applications before granting network access. The network assigns unique identities to applications and authenticates them in advance, maintaining a database of approved and disapproved applications. This preliminary action prevents rogue applications from accessing network resources while allowing legitimate applications to operate freely.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication mechanism between the mobile device application and the wireless network. The network acts as a mediator that verifies application identities against a database of approved applications, allowing or blocking access based on authentication results. This intermediary layer maintains security without preventing legitimate access.
2Reliability
If authentication and access control mechanisms are implemented for mobile device applications, then network security is improved, but device complexity and system overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device application performs self-authentication by presenting its unique identity to the network. The application itself is responsible for providing authentication credentials, and the network simply verifies these credentials against its database. This self-service approach reduces the need for complex client-side security infrastructure while maintaining strong authentication.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal authentication framework that handles multiple application types and network access scenarios through a single identity assignment and verification mechanism. The same authentication process applies to all applications regardless of their specific function or the type of network resource they seek to access, simplifying the overall system architecture.
3Loss of energy
If rogue applications are blocked after identification, then network resource protection is improved, but loss of time occurs due to the identification and blocking process
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication and identification of applications before they can access network resources. By checking application identities against the database of approved applications in advance, the system prevents rogue applications from consuming network resources in the first place, rather than having to detect and block them after resource consumption begins.
Solution Approach 2:
The network maintains a database of approved and disapproved applications that serves as feedback information. When an application requests network access, the system queries this database to determine whether to allow or block access. This feedback mechanism enables rapid decision-making without requiring complex real-time analysis of application behavior.
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AI summary
A method for managing mobile device applications on a mobile device, the method comprising receiving, at a mobile device, information identifying a mobile device application, the information indicating that the mobile device application is disapproved for communication in a wireless network and indicating a reason for disabling access to the wireless network, the information received from a wireless network operator system associated with the wireless network and disabling access to the wireless network by the mobile device application at the mobile device.