ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,273, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling disorder of downlink data" was invented by Yongcui Li (Beijing), Fang Yu (Shenzhen, China), Yan Li (Beijing), Hui Ni (Beijing) and Yizhuang Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method for controlling disorder of downlink data and an apparatus thereof. The method includes: A control plane network element determines to switch from a first user plane device to a second user plane device, and sends indication information to the second user plane device. The second user plane dev...