WIPO ASSIGNS PATENT TO ZTE FOR "METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR HOME AGENT OBTAINING MOBILE NODE-HOME AGENT KEY IN PROXY MOBILE INTERNET PROTOCOL" (CHINESE INVENTOR)

GENEVA, March 21 -- Publication No. WO/2011/029313 was published on March 17.

Title of the invention: "METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR HOME AGENT OBTAINING MOBILE NODE-HOME AGENT KEY IN PROXY MOBILE INTERNET PROTOCOL."

Applicants: ZTE CORPORATION (CN).

Inventors: Xiaofan Xu (CN).

According to the abstract posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization: "A method, apparatus and system for Home Agent (HA) obtaining Mobile Node-Home Agent key (MN-HA key) in Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (PMIP) is disclosed in the present invention. The method includes the following steps: an HA receives a Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP) Registration Request message (MIP-RRQ) from a Foreign Agent (FA); then, the HA sends a first access request message to an Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) server which the Mobile Station (MS) belongs to, wherein a carried user password in the first access request message is the HA-AAA key between the HA and the AAA server; thereafter, the HA receives a first access accept message carrying an MN-HA key returned from the AAA server, wherein the first access accept message is returned in response to the AAA server successfully authenticating the HA-AAA key carried in the first access request message using a locally-configured HA-AAA key; and finally the HA obtains the MN-HA key within the first access accept message. Thereby the present invention lays the foundation for successfully establishing MIP sessions."

The patent was filed on May 12, 2010 under Application No. PCT/CN2010/072685.

For further information please visit: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?ia=CN2010/072685

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