ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,881, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Encrypting discovery messages" was invented by Hongil Kim (San Diego), Soo Bum Lee (San Diego), Adrian Edward Escott (Reading, Great Britain) and Anand Palanigounder (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage medium for encrypting discovery messages are provided. An example method at a first UE may include obtaining a discovery message that is ciphered based on at least one of a ciphering key, a ciphering algorithm, or a first set of time parameters, where the discovery message is scrambled based on at least one of a...