ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,587, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Packet transmission method and related apparatus" was invented by Yishan Xu (Shanghai), Hualin Zhu (Shanghai), Haoren Zhu (Shanghai) and Yu Zhou (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a packet transmission method and a related apparatus. An access network device receives a first packet from an Internet-of-things (IoT) function network element; the access network device obtains first information, where the first information indicates that the first packet includes a passive or semi-active IoT instructi...