US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG SDS on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for providing secure messaging service" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,638, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for providing secure messaging service" was invented by Seung Min Yeo (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Min Son (Seoul, South Korea), Da Hye Wi (Seoul, South Korea), Do Yeon Koo (Seoul, South Korea) and Dae Yeoul Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing a secure message service. The method according to some embodiments includes inquiring a public key of a counterpart user to be invited to a chat room, generating an encryption key related to the chat room using the inquired ...