MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517046021 A) filed by Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd., Beijing, on May 13, for 'timer starting method and apparatus.'

Inventor(s) include Jiang, Xiaowei.

The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a timer starting method and apparatus, which can be applied to the technical field of communications. The method, which is executed by means of an Internet-of-Things terminal device, comprises: determining a starting moment of a DRX inactivity timer according to transmission time ...