ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,870, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and related device" was invented by Tao Peng (Shenzhen, China), Huirong Shi (Shenzhen, China) and Yinye Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a related device. In the method, a control plane (CP) sends a first message to a user plane steering function (USF). The first message includes end user information, and indicates the USF to schedule an end user based on the end user information. Then, the CP determines, based on an identifier of a tar...