ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,039, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"User privacy protection method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Gaokun Pang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user privacy protection method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: obtaining a first random number; determining a first identifier according to the first random number; sending a first message carrying the first identifier to a second device, where the first message indicates the second device to perform authentication with a first device according to a cached result corresponding to the first identifier; est...