| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080220759 | Automatic Device Capabilites Change Notification - The present invention relates to an improved approach to mobile device capability management. Heretofore, a capability management device is provided at a mobile communication network. Upon change of a mobile device capability, a related notification is sent to the capability management device which applies a policy decision whether to track the capability change at the network side or not. Should the decision be ‘yes’, the capability management device starts a device management session to collect further information on a mobile device capability change beyond the information made available with the mobile device capability change notification. After retrieval of the mobile device capability change information, the capability management device will update its mobile device capability state accordingly. Optionally, the capability management device may share the generated information with third party cooperating with the mobile device for, e.g., service delivery. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080273704 | Method and Apparatus for Delivering Keying Information - A method of delivering an application key or keys to an application server for use in securing data exchanged between the application server and a user equipment, the user equipment accessing a communications network via an access domain. The method comprises running an Authentication and Key Agreement procedure between the user equipment and a home domain in order to make keying material available to the user equipment and to an access enforcement point. At least a part of said keying material is used to secure a communication tunnel between the user equipment and the access enforcement point, and one or more application keys are derived within the home domain using at least part of said keying material. Said application key(s) is(are) provided to said application server, and the same application key(s) derived at the user equipment, wherein said access enforcement point is unable to derive or have access to said application key(s). | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080301434 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINING INTERNET PROTOCOL AUTHENTICATION AND MOBILITY SIGNALING - Methods and apparatuses for combining internet protocol layer authentication and mobility signaling are disclosed. Various embodiments for providing authentication and mobility signaling when a mobile node moves from a 3GPP access network to a non 3GPP access network and vice versa are described. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080307528 | Protection of Data Delivered Out-of-Order - A basic idea of the invention is to separate ordered delivery data and unordered delivery data in a security protocol running on top of a reliable transport protocol, and perform a first type of security processing for ordered delivery data and a second different type of security processing for unordered delivery data in the security protocol. Preferably, data messages using ordered delivery and data messages using unordered delivery within a secure data stream are separated into two message sequence spaces on the security protocol layer, and data security processing is then performed differently in these two spaces. The invention is particularly suitable for a reliable transport protocol such as SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol). The security protocol running on top of the transport protocol is preferably based on the TLS (Transport Layer Security) or a TLS-like protocol with a security processing extension for unordered delivery. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20100263040 | Method and Arrangement for Security Activation Detection in a Telecommunication System - A method and apparatus is provided for detecting the start of a secure mode by a user terminal ( | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100267363 | Methods and Apparatuses Generating a Radio Base Station Key in a Cellular Radio System - In a method and a system for providing secure communication in a cellular radio system radio base station key is generated by determining a set of data bits known to both the UE and the radio base station, and creating the radio base station key in response to the determined set of data. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100268937 | KEY MANAGEMENT FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION - A method and arrangement is disclosed for managing session keys for secure communication between a first and at least a second user device in a communications network. The method is characterized being independent of what type of credential each user device implements for security operations. A first user receives from a first key management server keying information and a voucher and generates a first session key. The voucher is forwarded to at least a responding user device that, with support from a second key management server communicating with the first key management server, resolves the voucher and determines a second session keys. First and second session keys are, thereafter, used for secure communication. In one embodiment the communication traverses an intermediary whereby first and second session keys protect communication with respective leg to intermediary. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100281262 | Method for Digital Rights Management in a Mobile Communications Network - The present invention relates to a method and an operator network node for enabling a user-defined DRM domain of *SIMs hosted by *SIM-enabled devices. The operator network node is connectable to a *SIM based device and to a content provider node, and comprises means for establishing a secure channel between a *SIM-based device and an operator network node, means for creating a DRM domain defined by at least one user of *SIM-based devices, means for receiving at the operator network node a registration request from the *SIM-based device to register the *SIM of the *SIM-based device into the created user-defined DRM domain, means for registering at the operator network node the *SIM of the *SIM-based device into the registered user-defined DRM domain, and means for making the registered information associated with the user-defined DRM domain available to the content provider. The invention also relates to a further method and the content provider comprising means for accessing in the operator network node registered information associated with a registered user-defined DRM domain comprising *SIMs of a user, and means for establishing a content provider defined DRM domain comprising at least one of the *SIMs of the user-defined DRM domain. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100284368 | Wireless LAN Mobility - A method of performing hand-off of a Mobile Node from a previous Access Point to a new Access Point within a WLAN domain, where the previous and new Access Points are connected respectively to previous and new Access Routers. The method comprises, following a MAC authentication exchange between the Mobile Node and the new Access Point, sending a MAC Reassociation Request from the Mobile Node to the New Access Point, forwarding said Reassociation Request to said new Access Router, and sending the Reassociation Request from said new Access Router to said previous Access Router within an IP hand-off request, and authenticating the Reassociation Request at the previous Access Router and initiating the tunnelling of IP packets received at the previous Access Router and destined for said Mobile Node, towards said new Access Router. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100293595 | Security Policy Distribution to Communication Terminals - A method and arrangement for distributing a security policy to a communication terminal having an association with a home communication network, but being present in a visited communication network. The home communication network ( | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100316223 | Method and Arrangement in a Telecommunication System - A security key, K_eNB, for protecting RRC/UP traffic between a User Equipment, UE, and a serving eNodeB is established by a method and an arrangement in a Mobility Management Entity, MME, and in said UE, of an Evolved Packet System, EPS. The MME and the UE derives the security key, K_eNB, from at least an NAS uplink sequence number, NAS_U_SEQ, sent from the UE to the MME, and from an Access Security Management Entity-key, K_ASME, shared between the MME and the UE. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100325412 | APPARATUS FOR RECONFIGURATION OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM BASED ON SECURITY ANALYSIS AND A CORRESPONDING TECHNICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The invention relates to an apparatus for analyzing and reconfiguring a technical system ( | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110010768 | Method and Apparatuses for End-to-Edge Media Protection in ANIMS System - An IMS system includes an IMS initiator user entity. The system includes an IMS responder user entity that is called by the initiator user entity. The system includes a calling side S-CSCF in communication with the caller entity which receives an INVITE having a first protection offer and parameters for key establishment from the caller entity, removes the first protection offer from the INVITE and forwards the INVITE without the first protection offer. The system includes a receiving end S-CSCF in communication with the responder user entity and the calling side S-CSCF which receives the INVITE without the first protection offer and checks that the responder user entity supports the protection, inserts a second protection offer into the INVITE and forwards the INVITE to the responder user entity, wherein the responder user entity accepts the INVITE including the second protection offer and answers with an acknowledgment having a first protection accept. A method for supporting a call by a telecommunications node. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110035787 | Access Through Non-3GPP Access Networks - When setting up communication from a user equipment UE ( | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110047209 | METHOD AND NETWORK FOR DELIVERING STREAMING DATA - In a procedure for delivering streaming media, a Client first requests the media from an Order Server. The Order Server authenticates the Client and sends a ticket to the Client. Then, the Client sends the ticket to a Streaming Server. The Streaming Server checks the ticket for validity and if found valid encrypts the streaming data using a standardized real-time protocol such as the SRTP and transmits the encrypted data to the Client. The Client receives the data and decrypts them. Copyrighted material adapted to streaming can be securely delivered to the Client. The robust protocol used is very well suited for in particular wireless clients and similar devices having a low capacity such as cellular telephones and PDAs. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110055566 | Verifying a Message in a Communication Network - A method and apparatus for verifying a request for service in a communication network. An authentication node generates a secret and transmits the secret to a node providing a service. The authentication node then receives a request for authentication from a requesting node, and once the requesting node is authenticated, the authorisation node sends an identifier for the requesting node and a first token, which is derived using the secret and the identifier. A service providing node subsequently receives a request for service from the requesting node, the request including the identifier for the requesting node and the first token. The service providing node derives a second token using the identifier and the secret. If the first token and the second token match, then the service providing node allows the request, and if the first token and the second token do not match, then the request is refused. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110059736 | IDENTIFICATION OF A MANIPULATED OR DEFECT BASE STATION DURING HANDOVER - A method of and arrangement for detecting a manipulated or defect base station of a communication network is disclosed, wherein a target base station, having selected one or more algorithms on the basis of a prioritized algorithm list (PAL) and a UE security capabilities (SCAP), reports UE SCAP related information to a core network node. The core network node having knowledge of the UE SCAP compares this information or parts of this information with the retrieved UE SCAP related information in order to be able to identify a manipulated or defect base station when a comparison fails to match. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110091036 | Cryptographic Key Generation - A technique for generating a cryptographic key ( | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093609 | Sending Secure Media Streams - A method and apparatus for sending a first secured media stream having a payload via an intermediate node. The intermediate node receives from a sender the first secured media stream. An end-to-end context identifier and a hop-by-hop context identifier are determined for the first secured media stream, where the hop-by-hop context identifier relates to the intermediate node and the end-to-end identifier relates to the sender. A second secured media stream is generated, which includes at least the payload of the first secured media stream and the context identifiers to identify the first secured media stream. The second secured media stream is sent to a receiving node, and the context identifiers are also sent to the receiving node. The context identifiers are usable by the receiving node to recover the first secured media stream. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093698 | SENDING MEDIA DATA VIA AN INTERMEDIATE NODE - A method and apparatus for sending protected media data from a data source node to a client node via an intermediate node. The data source node establishes a first hop-by-hop key to be shared with the intermediate node and an end-to-end key to be shared with the client node. A single security protocol instance is configured and used to trans-protocol form data from a media stream into transformed data using the keys. The transformed data is then sent to the intermediate node. The intermediate node uses the first hop-by-hop key to apply a security processing to the transformed data, and establishes a second hop-by-hop key with the client node. A second transformation is performed on the transformed data using the second hop-by-hop key to produce further transformed media data, which is then sent to the client node. At the client node a single security protocol instance is configured with the second hop-by-hop key and the end-to-end key, which are used to apply further security processing to the transformed media data. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110107082 | Storing and Forwarding Media Data - A method apparatus for storing and forwarding media data in a communication network. An intermediate node disposed between a media data source node and a client node receives encrypted media data packets from the media data source node. The intermediate node stores the received media data packets in a memory for later sending to the client node, and adjusts fields in the original header of each stored media data packet to create modified media data packets having a modified header, and sends adjustment information to the client node. The adjustment information allows the client node to recreate the original headers from the modified headesr, before decrypting the encrypted media packets with keying materials already sent between the media data source node and the client node. The modified media data packets are then sent to the client node for decryption. This allows the intermediate node to “store and forward” SRTP data without being able to access the encrypted data content. | 05-05-2011 |