ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,357, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Network transfer method, apparatus, and device" was invented by Pengfei Zhang (Guangdong, China), Yanchao Kang (Guangdong, China) and Lufeng Han (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a network transfer method, an apparatus, and a device, and relates to the communications field. The method includes: receiving first extended steering of roaming SOR information sent by a network side device; in a case that the terminal device supports the a capability of negotiating extended SOR, determining a priority of a...