ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,280, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for establishing network connection, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Dingzhu Lurong (Shenzhen, China), Lei Peng (Shenzhen, China) and Yongfu Sun (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes selecting, based on selectable tag(s) carried by a network connection object, selectable application instance(s) corresponding to the selectable tag(s), respectively, from original application instance(s); selecting excludable application instance(s) from the original application instance(s) bas...