ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,660, issued on June 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communications method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Tingting Geng (Shanghai) and Hongping Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a communications method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: A terminal device receives first information sent by a network device, where the first information includes access control information of services with N service attributes, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and the terminal device determines, based on a first service that c...