US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Aug. 11 for "Security association lookup in communication system deployments" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,344, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Security association lookup in communication system deployments" was invented by Digvijay Khati (Fremont, Calif.), Keshavamurthi Jayanthi Murugesan (Tracy, Calif.), Rahul Singal (Cupertino, Calif.) and Lokheshvar Balakumar (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To generate an encrypted packet, a transmitting endpoint in a communication system chooses the desired IPsec tunnel, then retrieves the SA linked to that tunnel from its Outbound SA table of its local SA database (SAD), and encrypts the packet using the retrieved SA. To decrypt the e...