US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,897, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program" was invented by Jing Ping (Chengdu, China) and Anatoly Andrianov (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises means configured to: receive an authentication request from a management service consumer, the request comprising at least an identifier associated with an identity of the management service consumer and a credential used by the identity; and authenticate the management service consumer in dependence on the request, said authentication being dependent on one or more authenticatio...