Authentication method and system

• Main Author: VITIKAINEN TIMO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.10.2007
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

The present invention relates to an authentication method and system for identifying a subscriber ( 1 ) of a first network an address of the second network ( 9 ) is allocated to the subscriber ( 1 ). An information about a mapping between the address of the second network ( 9 ) and a subscriber identity is generated and transmitted to the second network ( 9 ). Thereby, an authentication server connection is provided between the first network ( 2 ) and the second network ( 9 ), such that the subscriber identity can be handled over to the second network ( 9 ). Thus, a VAS platform of the second network ( 9 ) can receive the address of the second network and the subscriber identity of the subscriber ( 1 ), such that subscriber accessing services of the VAS platform can be identified for charging and/or addressing purposes.