Samsung patents method to use 5G login for non-5G Wi-Fi networks
Samsung has patented a method that allows a mobile device to log into a non-5G Wi-Fi network using its standard 5G subscription credentials. The system verifies the user's identity through a specific authentication server before granting access to the network.
In the filing’s own words
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method disclosed herein includes authenticating a User Equipment (UE) using a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) subscription credential for accessing non-3GPP services from a non-3GPP network. The method includes authenticating the UE before allowing access to the non-3GPP services from the non-3GPP network. The method further includes using 3GPP security credentials for authenticating the UE to access the non-3GPP services from the non-3GPP network.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by a non-seamless wireless local area network (WLAN) offload (NSWO) function (NSWOF) entity in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a WLAN access network (AN), an extensible authentication protocol (EAP) identity (ID) response message including a subscription concealed identifier (SUCI) in a network access identifier (NAI) format; transmitting, to an authentication server function (AUSF) entity, a first authentication request message including the SUCI and a NSWO indicator, wherein the NSWO indicator is used to indicate that the first authentication request message is for a NSWO; receiving, from the AUSF entity, a first authentication response message including an EAP request message; transmitting, to the AUSF entity, a second authentication request message including an EAP response message; and receiving, from the AUSF entity, a second authentication response message including an EAP success message and a master session key (MSK) key, wherein the MSK key is based on the NSWO indicator.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Method and systems for authenticating UE for accessing non-3GPP service
- Patent number
- US12745077B2
- Application number
- 18270601
- Filed
- Dec 29, 2021
- Granted
- Sep 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 18
Classified under
H04W 12/06 Electricity & electronicsH04L 63/0892 Electricity & electronicsH04W 12/72 Electricity & electronicsH04W 84/12 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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