ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,606, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Xiaoli Shi (Shanghai) and Ruiyue Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, apparatus, and system. The method includes a network management entity determines a dual connectivity attribute of a first neighbor cell of a first cell, where the dual connectivity attribute is used to indicate whether the first neighbor cell can be used as a secondary cell of the first cell, the first cell belongs to a first base station, and th...