ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,696, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Network communication method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium for verifying consistency of short digital certificates" was invented by Xueyang Han (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a network communication method performed by a computer device acting as a second communication terminal. After transmitting an encrypted communication connection request for a first digital certificate to a first communication terminal, the second terminal receives a second digital certificate from the first comm...