ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,599, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Channel configuration method, and apparatus" was invented by Meng Jin (Shanghai), Yao Zhao (Shanghai), Jingyun Zhang (Shanghai), Dongzhe Sun (Shanghai), Yumin Li (Shanghai), Xudong Zhu (Shanghai), Hai Lian (Shenzhen, China), Guanjun Ni (Shanghai) and Xiaofeng Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: A basic application layer sends first information that includes a first business requirement and a first port to a basic service layer. The basic service layer sends second information that includes the first business r...