Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deriving a WLAN security context from a WWAN security context
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Application No.: US15479877Application Date: 2017-04-05
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Publication No.: US10356670B2Publication Date: 2019-07-16
- Inventor: David William Craig , Gavin Bernard Horn , Anand Palanigounder , Arnaud Meylan
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04W12/04 ; H04W36/00 ; H04W36/14 ; H04W88/06 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W12/06

Abstract:
Techniques for deriving a WLAN security context from an existing WWAN security context are provided. According to certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) establishes a secure connection with a wireless wide area network (WWAN). The UE may receive from the WWAN an indication of a wireless local area network (WLAN) for which to derive a security context. The UE then derives the security context for the WLAN, based on a security context for the WWAN obtained while establishing the secure connection with the WWAN and establishes a secure connection with the WLAN using the derived security context for the WLAN. This permits the UE to establish a Robust Security Network Association (RSNA) with the WLAN while avoiding lengthy authentication procedures with an AAA server, thus speeding up the association process.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170208511A1 DERIVING A WLAN SECURITY CONTEXT FROM A WWAN SECURITY CONTEXT Public/Granted day:2017-07-20
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