ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,239, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Traffic routing method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Yongcui Li (Beijing), Ao Lei (Beijing) and Hui Ni (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides example traffic routing methods, apparatuses, and systems. One example method includes receiving a routing rule from a session management network element in a session management process, wherein the routing rule indicates at least one of the following: to send a first traffic to a first function entity, or to send a second traffic to a second function entity or an ac...