ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,476, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Shuqi Zhang (Beijing), Xiaoshuang Li (Shenzhen, China) and Yong Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method is disclosed. The method includes: A session management function network element sends a first path establish request to a transport network control network element, where the first path establish request includes an identifier of an access network device, an identifier of a mobile gateway selected for a session, and a first transport network (TN) Quality o...