ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,260, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzen, China).

"Message receiving and sending method, information obtaining, receiving, and sending method, and related device" was invented by Xiaoming Ma (Nanjing, China), Zhifeng He (Shenzhen, China) and Shuxiang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a network device is configured to obtain keepalive information of a terminal device; receive a migration begin request message sent by a control plane network element; and in response to receiving the migration begin request message, after receiving a first keepalive reques...