ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,829, issued on May 20, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Beijing).

"Data processing method and apparatus, and communication device" was invented by Wei Hong (Beijing), Yajun Zhu (Beijing), Tianjia Wang (Beijing) and Yong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method applied to a base station includes: configuring a first transmission resource for a first priority service; when the remaining transmission resources cannot completely bear service data of a second priority service, selecting at least part among the first transmis...