ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,353, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Secure communication method and apparatus" was invented by He Li (Shanghai), Rong Wu (Shenzhen, China) and YIzhuang Wu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure communication method and apparatus are disclosed, to ensure security of a direct communication between terminal devices. In this application, a first terminal device may receive a key generation parameter from a first network element, where the key generation parameter includes a ProSe temporary identity of the first terminal device. Then, the first terminal device may generate a ...