ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,197, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, communications apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Tingting Geng (Shanghai), Yinghao Jin (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Hongping Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Le Yan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a communications apparatus, and a storage medium. The communication method includes: sending, by a new master network device, a request to an original master network device, to request context information of a terminal device on the original...