ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,284, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Task management between electronic devices with different operating systems" was invented by Kang Chen (Hangzhou, China), Xiangyu Niu (Shenzhen, China) and Huifeng Hu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes: the second electronic device may send, in response to a first user operation, a first background task request to a first distributed system of the first electronic device by using a second distributed system. The first electronic device detects, by using the first distributed system, whether a task execution conditi...