ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,030, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Gateway station switching method and apparatus" was invented by Xiaolu Wang (Hangzhou, China), Hejia Luo (Hangzhou, China), Yu Wang (Hangzhou, China), Ying Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Xueliang Shi (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gateway station switching method and apparatus. When quality of a link from a terminal device to a source gateway station through a satellite is poor, the source gateway station sends third indication information to a target gateway station, so that the target gateway station feeds back second channel qu...