US 11,683,689 B2
Hyperledger authorization into a radio access network (RAN)
Ronald R. Marquardt, Woodinville, WA (US); and Lyle W. Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US)
Assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed by T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/850,705.
Application 17/850,705 is a division of application No. 16/987,280, filed on Aug. 6, 2020, granted, now 11,425,567.
Prior Publication US 2022/0330023 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/084 (2021.01); H04W 8/06 (2009.01); H04W 12/02 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01)
CPC H04W 12/084 (2021.01) [H04W 8/06 (2013.01); H04W 12/02 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hyperledger gateway for use in completing combined authentication and service authorization operations, comprising:
a processor;
a non-transitory memory;
a shared data store comprising a hyperledger, wherein the hyperledger comprises a plurality of record blocks, each record block comprising a hash of a previous block of the hyperledger, information content, and a hash over the hash of the previous block and over the information content, wherein the shared data store is read-only accessible to computer systems outside of the hyperledger gateway, and wherein the shared data store is read-write accessible to the hyperledger gateway; and
an application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor:
based on an authentication and service authorization of a wireless communication device, builds a first hyperledger record associated with the wireless communication device, wherein the information content of the first hyperledger record indicates the authenticated status and the service authorization status of the wireless communication device,
stores the first hyperledger record in the shared data store,
receives a combined authentication and service authorization request associated with the wireless communication device from an access node,
looks up the first hyperledger record based on an identity of the wireless communication device included in the combined authentication and service authorization request,
based on the first hyperledger record, confirms that the wireless communication device is authorized to receive a requested communication service, and
sends an authentication success response and a service authorization success response to a cell site, whereby the wireless communication device is both authenticated and authorized by the hyperledger gateway in a combined transaction and a requested communication service is provided to the wireless communication device.