ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,503, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Chong Lou (Shanghai), Qiang Fan (Shanghai) and Qufang Huang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method and an apparatus are provided. When a time-frequency resource used by a terminal device for data transmission is unavailable, the terminal device postpones, based on indication information of a network device and/or according to a postponement rule, the data transmission to a time-frequency resource closest to the time-frequency resource. Therefore, a data tran...