ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,087, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Hui Jin (Shenzhen, China), Xiaobo Wu (Shenzhen, China), Yang Xin (Shanghai) and Fenghui Dou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a communication method. When determining that a network used to provide a service does not meet a transmission requirement of service data, a terminal device requests, from a PCF, an SMF, or an NWADF, to analyze a reason why the network does not meet the transmission requirement of the service data. The PCF, the SMF, or the NWADF obtains in...