ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,636, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Shengfeng Xu (Beijing) and Yanmei Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data communication method includes receiving a first message. The first message includes an identifier of a second terminal, and the first message requests to perform communication of a first application between a first terminal and the second terminal. The data communication method also includes sending first information to an access network device based on the first message. The first informatio...