ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,164, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Communication method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Meng Li (Beijing), Jiangwei Ying (Beijing) and Yanmei Yang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method of adding a terminal to a multicast group by using a unicast PDU session establishment procedure. The terminal sends, to a mobility management network element, a PDU session establishment request message that includes identification information of a multicast group, where the PDU session establishment request message is used ...