ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,646, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Lun Zhang (Dongguan, China) and Gang Zheng (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and a communication apparatus are provided. The method includes: An optical line terminal (OLT) may obtain a cycle period and a data amount of periodic data, and allocate a first slot and a second slot based on the data amount of the periodic data and the cycle period, where the first slot is used to transmit the periodic data, the second slot is used for windowing, an...