Telekommunikationssystem und Verfahren zum Betrieb des Telekommunikationssystems

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Veröffentlichungs-Nr.

EP4564740

Aktenzeichen

EP23213342

Anmeldetag

30. November 2023

Veröffentlichung

11. Februar 2026

Erteilung

11. Februar 2026

Rechtsraum

EP

IPC

H04L9/40H04L67/1008

Abstract

A method (200) of operating a telecommunications system (100), said system comprising a/an: client device (110); set of servers (130) for providing a service to the client device; and authentication server (120) for generating an authentication ticket for provision of the service by the set of servers to the client device; the method comprising the steps of: generating at the authentication server: a set of encrypted levels of service (220), said set comprising at least two different levels of service, each of said levels: comprising a performance requirement; and being encrypted with a corresponding encryption key from a set of encryption keys; and an authentication ticket, for the client device and service, said ticket comprising the set of encrypted levels of service; communicating, to the set of servers; the authentication ticket (230); and performing a process comprising the steps of: communicating, to the set of servers, an encryption key, from the set of encryption keys, not yet having been communicated to the set of servers (240); processing, by the set of servers, the authentication ticket using said communicated encryption key, thereby to retrieve the performance requirement within the corresponding level of service (250); determining, by the set of servers, whether to provide the service in accordance, at least, with the retrieved performance requirement (250); and subsequent to said determining, identifying that provision of the service according to, at least, the retrieved performance requirement is (260): rejected by the set of servers (260-1), in response to which subsequently reiterating the process (240); or accepted by at least one of the servers (260-2), in response to which subsequently selecting one of said servers to provide the service according to, at least, the retrieved performance requirement (280).

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Firma

British Telecommunications public limited company

Land

🇬🇧 Großbritannien

Fachgebiete