ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,186, issued on July 8, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"System and method for security protection of NAS messages" was invented by Jennifer Liu (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that provide NAS security protection for mobile networks. In one embodiment, a network element of a mobile network performs a NAS procedure in multiple phases to establish a NAS communication session with User Equipment (UE) when no NAS security context exists. For a first phase, the network element receives an initial NAS message from the UE populated with a subset of NAS protocol Information Elements (IE...