ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,784, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Background data transfer policy formulation method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Xiaoyun Zhou (Nanjing, China) and Yali Yan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a background data transfer policy formulation method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: A first policy control network element sends, to a first network element, a first message used to request a background data transfer policy stored in the first network element, and obtains, from the first network element, the backgr...