ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,305, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Bingzhao Li (Beijing) and Lei Guan (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method and a related apparatus, and is applied to the multicast field. One example method includes: A first terminal device obtains a first multicast configuration parameter, where the first multicast configuration parameter includes a group radio network temporary identifier (G-RNTI) and an identifier of a multicast service. The first terminal device in an idle state or an inacti...