US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 22 for "DTLS for SCTP as bump in the stack for rekeying/reauthenticating" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,813, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"DTLS for SCTP as bump in the stack for rekeying/reauthenticating" was invented by Magnus Westerlund (Upplands Vasby, Sweden), Claudio Porfiri (Stockholm) and John Preuss Mattsson (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a network node for rekeying or re-authenticating security protection for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) association using Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) encryption for SCTP chunk transfer. The method comprises establishing a new DTLS connection between a first network node and a second...