ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,480, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Lei Chen (Beijing), Bingzhao Li (Beijing), Bin Xu (Beijing) and Yan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access network device receives configuration information of a first QoS flow, where the first QoS flow supports a plurality of types of data packets, and the configuration information includes QoS parameters respectively corresponding to the plurality of types; and performs, after receiving a first data packet in the first QoS flow, downlink scheduling on the first data packet base...