ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,517, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Hongyu Xiang (Beijing), Lei Chen (Beijing) and Bingzhao Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes determining a first paging hyperframe (PH) based on a first extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) cycle, and determining a second PH based on a second eDRX cycle, where the first PH includes a first paging time window (PTW), and the second PH includes a second PTW; and monitoring a paging occasion (PO) in the first PTW and th...