ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,591, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network chip management method and apparatus, communication device, and storage medium" was invented by Xiaodong Xu (Beijing), Xiaodong Wang (Beijing) and Yibo Yang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure belongs to the field of communication technologies, and provides a network chip management method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. According to the network chip management method provided in this disclosure, an idle target network chip is determined based on at least one of a port status, a config...