ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,958, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xiaolei Tie (Shanghai), Han Zhou (Shanghai), Wenwen Huang (Shanghai) and Zhanzhan Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method is provided. The method includes a first terminal device that monitors control information of a first cell in a first time period, and after monitoring the control information, determines, based on the control information, whether to perform monitoring on the first paging occasion. The first time period includes at least one time unit in which a ...