US 11,895,504 B2
Federated multi-access edge computing availability notifications
Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Morrisville, NC (US); Robert E. Barton, Richmond (CA); Carlos M. Pignataro, Cary, NC (US); and Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/446,921.
Prior Publication US 2023/0070468 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 12/30 (2021.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 12/35 (2021.01) [H04L 63/0815 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
transmitting, from a User Equipment (UE) to an Access Point (AP) of a wireless network of a federated service, an attach request for the wireless network that includes authentication credentials for an independent identity provider in an identity federation, wherein the independent identity provider is external and independent from the wireless network and used to authenticate the UE to the wireless network;
forwarding, from the AP to the independent identity provider, the authentication credentials transmitted from the UE;
transmitting, from the independent identity provider to the AP, an authentication success message for the wireless network;
receiving, at the UE via the AP, the authentication success message for the wireless network from the independent identity provider;
transmitting, from the UE to the AP, a Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) query; and
receiving, at the UE from the AP, a MEC response that identifies MEC resources that are available to the UE based on an identity for the UE confirmed by the independent identity provider to the wireless network.