ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,240, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communications method and apparatus" was invented by Youyang Yu (Shanghai) and Wenfu Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The communication method according to the embodiments of this application is used to determine quality of service and/or charging control of a service flow of a terminal in a network that provides a service for a residential gateway, so as to ensure transmission quality of the service flow. A first control plane network element in a first network obtains a quality of service parameter and/or a charging policy of a servic...