US Patent Issued to ZTE on Dec. 30 for "Methods and systems for multicast data forwarding during mobility procedures in wireless communication networks" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,586, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and systems for multicast data forwarding during mobility procedures in wireless communication networks" was invented by Shuang Liang (Shenzhen, China), Zijiang Ma (Shenzhen, China) and Zhendong Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing multicast handover are disclosed. In one example aspect, the method includes receiving, by a first radio access node, a multicast flow comprising data packets of a multicast service, determining, by the first radio access node, whether to initiate a handover procedure fo...