ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,318, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Jingwang Ma (Shanghai), Mingyue Yang (Shanghai), Runze Zhou (Shanghai) and Qufang Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method is provided. A first network element receives an association identifier of a first application from a session management network element, where the association identifier is for associating different quality of service QoS flows of the first application. The first network element performs joint scheduling on the plurality of QoS ...