ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,886, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).
"Device authentication method and apparatus" was invented by Yacong Liang (Beijing), Hui Xu (Beijing) and Wei Zhou (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device authentication method and an apparatus are provided, to solve the problem of how to perform an authentication for the device in a UUDN. The method includes: obtaining, by a target access point (AP), a first timestamp sent by a local service center (LSC) device and a second timestamp sent by a terminal, where the second timestamp is sent by the LSC device to the terminal, and ...