MUMBAI, India, May 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517034870 A) filed by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Guangdong, China, on April 9, for 'communication method and apparatus.'

Inventor(s) include Wu Yizhuang; Lei Ao; and Li He.

The application for the patent was published on May 2, under issue no. 18/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided in the present application are a communication method and apparatus. The method comprises: a first terminal device deducing a first key according to a first count value wherein the first key is used for protecting the communication security between the first terminal device and a first slave node after the first termi...