ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,813, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Service authorization method and communications apparatus" was invented by Caixia Qi (Shanghai) and Yu Yin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service authorization method and a communications apparatus to resolve a problem that, in a scenario in which a second server is discovered by a client, a first server fails to obtain service authorization to access the second server, so as to reduce a security risk of a service-based network. The method includes: applying, by the client on behalf of the first server, for an access token for the fi...