US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Communication method and apparatus for small data transmission" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,954, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus for small data transmission" was invented by Chunhua You (Shanghai) and Xiaoying Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a communication method and apparatus. One example method includes receiving, by a central unit of a first network device, a retrieve user equipment (UE) context request from a second network device; sending, by the central unit of the first network device, a context of a terminal device in an inactive state to the second network device; and upon receiving...