ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,094, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Yinghao Jin (Shanghai), Hongzhuo Zhang (Shanghai) and Wei Tan (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and an apparatus providing a PCI allocation and optimization solution are provided. The method includes that a distributed unit receives first information sent by a central unit, where the first information includes at least one of the following: allowed PCI information, unallowed PCI information, or PCI conflict information; and the distributed unit determines a PCI of a ...