ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,441, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Beijing BOE Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for terminal to access network, Internet of Things system, and computer program product" was invented by Wei Deng (Beijing) and Yi Bian (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the present disclosure are a method and apparatus for a terminal to access a network, an Internet of Things (IoT) system, and a computer program product. The method includes: receiving idle timeslot information of a gateway to be accessed that is sent by said gateway in a current timeslot; parsing the number of timeslots between the cur...