ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,971, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Junren Chang (Beijing), Lei Han (Beijing), Lingping Wang (Shanghai), Shulan Feng (Beijing) and Jianghua Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives an identifier of a filtering protocol version from an access network device, and then sends first capability information of the terminal device to the access network device bas...