ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,395, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Bin Xu (Beijing), Bingzhao Li (Beijing), Lei Chen (Beijing), Haifeng Yu (Beijing) and Hong Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus, wherein a first identity of a first service is obtained, and a first paging occasion is determined based on the first identity, where the first paging occasion is used by the terminal device to receive a first message, and the first message is used to page the terminal device. The first paging occasion is determined based o...