Abstract: An approach for registration an application instance is provided. A registration request including credential information related to a user, a device and an instance of an application resident on the device is generated. The registration request is transmitted over a network to a registration platform. A unique identifier that is encrypted, in response to registration of the application instance is received from the registration platform. This unique identifier is used to securely authenticate communication with the application instance.

Abstract: An approach is provided for using multifactor authentication to access multiple services. A determination is made that a user equipment has been authenticated for an access network. An identifier corresponding to the user equipment is received. An alias identifier is generated based on the received user equipment identifier for use in combination with a universal user identifier to authenticate a user corresponding to the user equipment for accessing a plurality of services via the access network.

Abstract: An approach for registration an application instance is provided. A registration request including credential information related to a user, a device and an instance of an application resident on the device is generated. The registration request is transmitted over a network to a registration platform. A unique identifier that is encrypted, in response to registration of the application instance is received from the registration platform. This unique identifier is used to securely authenticate communication with the application instance.

Abstract: An approach is provided for using multifactor authentication to access multiple services. A determination is made that a user equipment has been authenticated for an access network. An identifier corresponding to the user equipment is received. An alias identifier is generated based on the received user equipment identifier for use in combination with a universal user identifier to authenticate a user corresponding to the user equipment for accessing a plurality of services via the access network.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a communications system that prioritizes packets that are transmitted over a digital communication channel utilizing at least one error-correcting transmission path associated with a Quality of Service (QoS) objective. The QoS objective is used to select the appropriate transmission path (that may include forward error coding, scrambling, and interleaving) that satisfies the relevant metrics of the desired level of service quality such as packet latency, variation of the packet latency, information throughput, and packet error rate (PER). The communications system selects a transmission path that is associated with QoS objectives best matched to the QoS objectives as required by the originating application.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a communications system that prioritizes packets that are transmitted over a digital communication channel utilizing at least one error-correcting transmission path associated with a Quality of Service (QoS) objective. The QoS objective is used to select the appropriate transmission path (that may include forward error coding, scrambling, and interleaving) that satisfies the relevant metrics of the desired level of service quality such as packet latency, variation of the packet latency, information throughput, and packet error rate (PER). The communications system selects a transmission path that is associated with QoS objectives best matched to the QoS objectives as required by the originating application.