Patent ID: 11924184
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a source user equipment (UE) to:
access provision information to determine a pair of encryption keys associated with the source UE, the pair of encryption keys to include a public key and a private key;
broadcast, by the source UE, a direct communication request that includes the public key to trigger a peer UE discovery;
receive, from a target UE, a direct communication accept message that includes a public key associated with the target UE;
decrypt communications from the target UE based on the private key associated with the source UE; and
encrypt communications to the target UE based on the public key associated with the target UE.