ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,610, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Link re-establishment method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Li Hu (Shenzhen, China), Jing Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Yinghui Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A link re-establishment method, an apparatus, and a system are described. The method includes: obtaining, by user equipment UE, a MAC of the UE based on a NAS integrity key and a first MAC generation parameter, where the first MAC generation parameter includes an identifier of the UE; sending, by the UE, a re-establishment request message to a target RAN, where the...