US 12,413,962 B2
Dynamic length security in the physical layer
Christian Hofmann, Munich (DE); Sameh M. Eldessoki, Munich (DE); Tarik Tabet, Carlsbad, CA (US); Panagiotis Botsinis, Munich (DE); and Amr Abdelrahman Yousef Abdelrahman Mostafa, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/239,891.
Claims priority of application No. 20220100723 (GR), filed on Sep. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0080661 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 12/033 (2021.01)
CPC H04W 12/033 (2021.01) [H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 63/0485 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising one or more baseband processors configured to perform operations for ciphering information in a physical layer of a wireless communications network, the operations comprising:
obtaining a transport block for transmission using the physical layer;
determining whether a size of the transport block satisfies a predetermined threshold; and
based on a determination that the size of the transport block satisfies a predetermined threshold size:
ciphering the transport block, and
transmitting the ciphered transport block using the physical layer.