ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,779, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Authorizing third party specific user identities" was invented by Kefeng Zhang (Beijing), Haris Zisimopoulos (London), Sebastian Speicher (Wallisellen, Switzerland), Yan Li (Beijing) and Zhimin Du (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server may authorize a use of a third party specific user identity based at least in part on verifying a token associated with a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE messag...