US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on May 27 for "Method, apparatus, and communication device for data transmission" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,359, issued on May 27, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method, apparatus, and communication device for data transmission" was invented by Xiandong Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data transmission is provided. The method includes: in response to the UE being in an inactive state, transmitting a first type acknowledged mode data protocol data unit (AMD PDU), wherein a bit length of a sequence number field of first type AMD PDU is less than a bit length of a sequence number field of a second type AMD PDU used in a connected state."

The patent was filed on April 13, 2020, un...