ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,367, issued on June 24, was assigned to CHINA IWNCOMM Co. LTD. (Shaanxi, China).

"Network device role self-adaptive method and apparatus" was invented by Jingtao Jing (Shaanxi, China), Guoqiang Zhang (Shaanxi, China), Yunlong Ma (Shaanxi, China), You Gai (Shaanxi, China) and Huanxi Wang (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device role self-adaptive method and apparatus are provided. Specifically, a first network device and a neighbor network device both determine their respective priority according to information including a connection result between the corresponding network device itself and a server; the first ...