US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 5 for "Digest access authentication for a client device" (Finnish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,300, issued on May 5, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Digest access authentication for a client device" was invented by Vesa Lehtovirta (Espoo, Finland), Jari Arkko (Kauniainen, Finland), Mohit Sethi (Helsinki) and John Mattsson (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising a client device performing digest access authentication with a server device. The digest access authentication comprises sending a first request towards the server device for accessing a resource. The digest access authentication comprises receiving a first response from the server device. The first response co...