ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,418, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Qi Pan (Beijing) and Zhenglei Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided to support a terminal device in indirectly sending data to a first network element via an application provider. The method includes an application provider obtaining first indication information and receiving first data information from the terminal device. The application provider sends the first data information to the first network element based on the first i...