ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,008, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Shubing Zhang (Dongguan, China), Fan Yang (Shanghai), Huidong Jia (Beijing), Zexu Huang (Dongguan, China) and Ridong Xu (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided that relate to the communications field. The method includes receiving, by a user plane network element from a control plane network element, information indicating a first policy for maintaining, when the user plane is disconnected from the control plane, continuity of a service o...