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Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;

Shu Guo, Beijing, CN;

Yuqin Chen, Beijing, CN;

Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Huarui Liang, Beijing, CN;

Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/041 (2021.01); H04W 12/043 (2021.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.01); H04W 76/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/041 (2021.01); H04W 12/043 (2021.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.02); H04W 76/30 (2018.02);
Abstract

An example technique for security key derivation in a wireless system includes: sending a radio resource control (RRC) suspend message from a first node, to a first user device, the RRC suspend message including a first next hop (NH) chaining counter (NCC) value; releasing access stratum (AS) resources associated with the first user device; deriving a first node key based on the first NCC value; receiving a first uplink message from the first user device without allocating AS resources to the first user device; and unscrambling the first uplink message based on the first NCC value.


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