ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,983, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and communication apparatus" was invented by Feilong Tang (Shanghai), Xu Li (Shanghai), Haibo Zhang (Beijing) and Huimin Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a data transmission method and a communication apparatus. The method may be applied to a data transmission or data distribution scenario in a peer-to-peer P2P network. The method includes: A first end node sends delayed transmission information to a second end node, where the delayed transmission information...