ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,478, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, communications apparatus, computer storage medium, and communications system" was invented by Rui Wang (Shanghai), Mingzeng Dai (Shenzhen, China), Qinghai Zeng (Shanghai), Haibo Xu (Beijing) and Yang Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method, and a communications apparatus. The communication method includes: An access network device sends a deactivation indication or an activation indication to a terminal. The deactivation indication is used to indicate that a primary secon...