ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,342, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Security policy processing method and communication device" was invented by Li Hu (Shanghai) and Rong Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a security policy processing method, to implement a best-effort on-demand user plane security activation mechanism in a network in which there is a core network element that does not support on-demand user plane security protection. The security policy processing method in embodiments of this application includes: A target 1 receives a message #50-2 from a...