ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,736, issued on March 11, was assigned to CHINA TELECOM CORPORATION LIMITED (Beijing).

"Communication method and system, base station and terminal" was invented by Shengnan Liu (Beijing), Zheng Jiang (Beijing), Peng Chen (Beijing) and Xiaoming She (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication method, system, base station, and terminal. The method includes: sending, by a first BS, a broadcast message, which comprises: a NID and a PLMN ID, which correspond to each of one or more SNPNs supported by the first BS; receiving, by the first BS, a connection request sent from a terminal, wherein the...