ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,235, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Shengfeng Xu (Beijing) and Yanmei Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a communication method, apparatus, and system. The method is performed by a remote terminal, which receives first policy information from a policy control function network element, where the first policy information includes a relay mode corresponding to a first application of the remote terminal, determines a first relay mode based on the first policy information, and transmits data o...