Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Security key usage across handover that keeps the same wireless termination
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Application No.: US16877684Application Date: 2020-05-19
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Publication No.: US11658817B2Publication Date: 2023-05-23
- Inventor: Daniela Laselva , Istvan Z. Kovacs
- Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Main IPC: H04L9/08
- IPC: H04L9/08 ; H04L9/14 ; H04W12/04 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W12/40 ; H04W12/041 ; H04W12/0433 ; H04W36/00 ; H04W12/033 ; H04W12/037 ; H04W12/069

Abstract:
A user equipment (UE) has both cellular and non-cellular links. The network sends it a first indication to maintain using a first set of security keys generated from a parameter specific to a source access node after the UE hands over the cellular link to a target access node without changing a wireless termination (WT) that is connected with the UE via the non-cellular link. The network uses that key to maintain the non-cellular link with the UE after the cellular link handover. From the UE's perspective it uses that key to authenticate its non-cellular link prior to the cellular link handover, but this handover does not change the WT which communicates with the UE via the non-cellular link so the UE can, only in response to receiving a first indication associated with the handover, use that same key to maintain that non-cellular link after the handover.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200280848A1 Security Key Usage Across Handover That Keeps The Same Wireless Termination Public/Granted day:2020-09-03
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