US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 25 for "Secure group creation in proximity based service communication" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,893, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Secure group creation in proximity based service communication" was invented by Xiaowei Zhang (Tokyo) and Anand Raghawa Prasad (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a secure group in ProSe communication includes requesting a service request to a ProSe server from a requesting device (21), the service request indicating a request to communicate with a receiving device (22) from the requesting device (21), performing verification on the requesting and receiving devices (21) and (22) by the ProSe server 24, sending a ProSe Service Result to the requesting an...