US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 24 for "Secure communication method and apparatus in passive optical network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,392, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Secure communication method and apparatus in passive optical network" was invented by Yongfeng Hu (Dongguan, China), Wenbin Ouyang (Dongguan, China) and Gang Zheng (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for secure communication. In an example method, an optical line terminal (OLT) sends a first message to an optical network unit (ONU), where the first message includes a first key algorithm, a certificate of the OLT, and a public key of the OLT, and the first key algorithm is a key algorithm suppo...