US Patent Issued to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE on Sept. 8 for "UE discovery message protection method and apparatus, communication device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,817, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"UE discovery message protection method and apparatus, communication device, and storage medium" was invented by Haoran Liang (Beijing) and Wei Lu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE discovery message protection method, includes: when a first UE is located outside network coverage, monitoring a first announcement message, where the first announcement message includes: a discovery message, which is encrypted on the basis of a discovery key, and an LTK ID, which indicates a LTK; and determining the discovery key on the basis of the LTK c...