ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,039, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Context management method and apparatus" was invented by Xiaoying Xu (Shenzhen, China), Chunhua You (Shanghai), Qinghai Zeng (Shanghai), Qufang Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Chong Lou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A context management method includes: when a distributed unit (DU) of a network side device receives a first message from a centralized unit (CU) of the network side device, the DU of the network side device may store a context of the terminal side device in an inactive state. The first message includes a second message, and th...