Patents by Inventor Anna Maria Lopez Nieto

Anna Maria Lopez Nieto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • User selector proxy, method and system for authentication, authorization and accounting
    Patent number: 7296078
    Abstract: The basic problem addressed by the present invention is the free disposition of users, without restrictions on users identifiers, among a plurality of AAA-servers within an ISP network for allowing AAA-service network scalability and for hiding the AAA-service network configuration to external AAA-clients. The present invention solves the problem discussed above by placing a User Selector Proxy as entry point to the AAA-service network within an ISP network, the User Selector Proxy responsible for determining an AAA-server in charge of the user and able to direct AAA-service requests to the appropriate AAA-server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Juan Antonio Sanchez Herrero, Anna Maria Lopez Nieto, John Michael Walker
  • User selector proxy, method and system for authentication, authorization and accounting
    Publication number: 20030217285
    Abstract: The basic problem addressed by the present invention is the free disposition of users, without restrictions on users identifiers, among a plurality of AAA-servers within an ISP network for allowing AAA-service network scalability and for hiding the AAA-service network configuration to external AAA-clients. The present invention solves the problem discussed above by placing a User Selector Proxy as entry point to the AAA-service network within an ISP network, the User Selector Proxy responsible for determining an AAA-server in charge of the user and able to direct AAA-service requests to the appropriate AAA-server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Juan Antonio Sanchez Herrero, Anna Maria Lopez Nieto, John Michael Walker