US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on June 17 for "Methods providing bootstrapping" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,721, issued on June 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods providing bootstrapping" was invented by Helena Vahidi Mazinani (Lund, Sweden) and Vesa Lehtovirta (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing authentication at a communication device is provided. A primary authentication is run with a Trusted Non-3GPP Gateway Function TNGF node to obtain a TNGF Key (KTNGF). A re-authentication Root Key (rRK) is provided based on the TNGF key. A re-authentication Master Session Key (rMSK1) is derived based on the re-authentication Root Key. A security setup is performed with a...