ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,384, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and data transmission apparatus" was invented by Lifeng Han (Shenzhen, China), Rui Wang (Shanghai), Mingzeng Dai (Shenzhen, China), Hongping Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Qinghai Zeng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a transmission method and a data transmission apparatus, so as to avoid out-of-order of data packets. The method includes: sending, by a source access network device, a first proportion of data packets in a first Packet Data Convergence Protocol PDCP entity in the source...