US Patent Issued to LENOVO (BEIJING) on July 1 for "Method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,986, issued on July 1, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services" was invented by Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Lianhai Wu (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). An exemplary method includes: determining an association identity (ID) for associating a common layer entity with a first lower layer entity for a multicast data radio bearer (M-DRB) and a second lower layer entity for a unicast data radio bearer (U-DRB); and transmitting co...