ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,253, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Method for mode switching and device" was invented by Zhenhua Xie (Guangdong, China) and Xiaowan Ke (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for mode switching and a device. The method includes: invoking a mode switch operation towards a second network function, where a parameter of the mode switch operation includes first information, and the first information includes a mode switch command; and the mode switch command is used to notify a target party to perform a mode switch ope...