ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,984, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, apparatus, computer readable medium, and electronic device for communication" was invented by Chunshan Xiong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and an electronic device for communication are provided. The communication method includes: receiving a request message transmitted by an application function (AF) entity, the request message including a service characteristic of an interactive service data flow, the service characteristic of the interactive service data flow includin...