US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 11 for "Method and apparatus for using NAS message for data protection" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,550, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for using NAS message for data protection" was invented by Kyungjoo Suh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by a user equipment (UE), for protecting data includes: transmitting an attach request message including at least one security protection parameter regarding a UE capability to support a security protection for a user plane, to a mobility management entity (MME) via a base station; and in case that a security policy is determined at a policy charging function (PCF) based on ...