Secure mobile base station connections
View Patent ↗In addition to other aspects disclosed, through a non-secure network, one or more bidirectional secure logical connections are established between a mobile base station and a secure network interface.
1. A method comprising:
establishing, through a non-secure network, at least one bidirectional secure logical connection between a mobile base station and a secure network interface,
wherein the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is assigned a priority, the mobile base station includes a tunnel manager capable of initiating, terminating and managing the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection, the mobile base station maintains a user profile registry in which respective user profiles containing user profile parameters of each user are stored and from which the tunnel manager retrieves the user profile of a user to determine the properties for establishing the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection for that user.
2. The method of claim 1 , in which the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is established based on user profile parameters.
3. The method of claim 1 , in which the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is configured to transfer one or more types of content.
4. The method of claim 1 , in which the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is assigned to a mobile handset connected to the mobile base station.
5. The method of claim 1 , in which the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is assigned to two or more mobile handsets connected to the mobile base station.
6. The method of claim 1 , in which the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is grouped with another bidirectional secure logical connection based on user profile parameters.
7. The method of claim 6 , in which the group of bidirectional secure logical connections is assigned a priority.
8. The method of claim 1 , in which the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is assigned a first priority and another bidirectional secure logical connection is assigned a second priority, different from the first priority.
9. The method of claim 1 , in which the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is established using IPSec protocol.
10. An apparatus comprising:
a mobile base station capable of establishing, through a non-secure network, at least one bidirectional secure logical connection with a secure network interface,
wherein the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is assigned a priority, the mobile base station includes a tunnel manager capable of initiating, terminating and managing the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection, the mobile base station maintains a user profile registry in which respective user profiles containing user profile parameters of each user are stored and from which the tunnel manager retrieves the user profile of a user to determine the properties for establishing the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection for that user.
11. The apparatus of claim 10 , in which the tunnel manager assigns the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection to a mobile handset connected to the mobile base station.
12. The apparatus of claim 10 , in which the tunnel manager assigns the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection to two or more mobile handsets connected to the mobile base station.
13. A system comprising:
a secure network that includes a secure network interface; and
at least one mobile base station capable of establishing, through a non-secure network, at least one bidirectional secure logical connection with the secure network interface,
wherein the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is assigned a priority, the mobile base station includes a tunnel manager capable of initiating, terminating and managing the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection, the mobile base station maintains a user profile registry in which respective user profiles containing user profile parameters of each user are stored and from which the tunnel manager retrieves the user profile of a user to determine the properties for establishing the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection for that user.
14. The system of claim 13 , further comprising one or more mobile handsets in communication with the at least one mobile base station.
15. A computer readable medium storing instructions that are executable by a processing device, and upon such execution causing the processing device to:
establish at least one bidirectional secure logical connection between a mobile base station and a secure network interface via a non-secure network,
wherein the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is assigned a priority, the mobile base station includes a tunnel manager capable of initiating, terminating and managing the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection, the mobile base station maintains a user profile registry in which respective user profiles containing user profile parameters of each user are stored and from which the tunnel manager retrieves the user profile of a user to determine the properties for establishing the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection for that user.
16. The medium of claim 15 , in which the establishment of the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is based on user profile parameters.
17. The medium of claim 15 , in which the at least one bidirectional secure logical connection is grouped with another bidirectional secure logical connection based on user profile parameters.