US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Multicast communication method, and apparatus and system" (Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,493, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multicast communication method, and apparatus and system" was invented by Qianghua Zhu (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Fenqin Zhu (Shanghai) and Wenfu Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a multicast communication method that includes: receiving, by a user plane function network element, a multicast packet, where the multicast packet includes a multicast address; matching, by the user plane function network element, the multicast packet with a packet detection rule PDR on the user plane function netw...