US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for service discovery" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,912, issued on July 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for service discovery" was invented by Hongxia Long (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for service discovery. The method comprises determining to initiate an authentication of a user equipment (UE); and sending an authentication request message including an encrypted or unencrypted identity of a subscriber of the UE, a serving network name and routing information of a data management node to an authentication server."

The patent was filed on Nov....