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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Christian Hofmann, Munich, DE;
Sameh M. Eldessoki, Munich, DE;
Tarik Tabet, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Panagiotis Botsinis, Munich, DE;
Amr Abdelrahman Yousef Abdelrahman Mostafa, Munich, DE;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer programs for ciphering information in a physical layer of a wireless communications network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method can include obtaining, by a UE, a transport block for transmission using the physical layer, determining, by the UE, whether the size of the transport block satisfies a predetermined threshold, and based on a determination, by the UE, that the size of the transport block satisfies a predetermined threshold size: ciphering, by the UE, the entire transport block, and transmitting, by the UE and to an access node, the ciphered transport block using the physical layer.