MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647125782 A) filed by Qualcomm Incorporated on October 22, 2026, for Downlink Control Information (dci) Protection.
Inventors include Lee, Soo Bum; Kanamarlapudi, Sitaramanjaneyulu; and Horn, Gavin Bernard.
The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.
Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For instance, a process can include establishing, by a wireless device (e.g., a user equipment (UE)), access stratum (AS) security between the wireless device and a network node; generating a downlink control information (DCI) encryption key based on a physical layer encryption key generated from an AS key shared with the network node; receiving a DCI transmission from the network node; and decrypting the DCI transmission using the DCI encryption key to obtain scheduling information for the wireless device.
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