ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,938, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Traffic volume prediction method and apparatus" was invented by Ruiyue Xu (Shanghai) and Kai Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a first management device, a first message from a second management device, and determining a predicted traffic volume corresponding to a traffic type for a predicted object based on a prediction requirement information. The first message is useable to request the first management device to perform traffic volume prediction. The first message includes the predicted object, the...