US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on May 12 for "Rekeying in authentication and key management for applications in communication network" (American, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,490, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Rekeying in authentication and key management for applications in communication network" was invented by Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran (Munich), Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India) and Suresh Nair (Estero, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for authentication and key management for applications (AKMA) in a communication network are disclosed. For example, a method comprises receiving an indication from an application function that a first expiry time of a first application function key, generated using a first random value and configured to e...