ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,164, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, communication apparatus, and terminal" was invented by Dejian Li (Beijing) and Mingchao Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes a first node scanning for another primary node based on a scanning parameter, and when the another primary node is not discovered through scanning, the first node listens to a first broadcast message based on random listening duration. The first node is a primary node of at least one communication domain, the first broadcast message is a broadcast message from one or...