US Patent Issued to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for obtaining key, user equipment, and network side device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,849, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Method and apparatus for obtaining key, user equipment, and network side device" was invented by Wenjuan Pu (Dongguan, China), Xiaodong Yang (Dongguan, China), Wei Bao (Dongguan, China), Xuanbing Liu (Dongguan, China) and Fei Qin (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining a key includes sending, by a first UE, first key information to a network side device, where the first key information is used for indicating a first key of a second UE, and the first key is used for performing encryption and/or integrity pro...