ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,340, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Dekui Sun (Shenzhen, China) and Shufeng Shi (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method, an apparatus, and a system in which a first session management function entity determines, based on information of a terminal group, user plane function entities accessed by terminals in a terminal group, and the first session management function entity determines a target user plane function entity based on the user plane function entities, where the target user plane function...