ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,437, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for resolving intent conflict" was invented by Wen Yan (Shanghai), Xianming Li (Shanghai), Yijun Yu (Dongguan, China) and Yinping Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a method and an apparatus for resolving an intent conflict that includes: receiving conflict resolution policy information indicating a threshold and a first operation, the first operation includes: when a first preset condition is met, using an alternative solution for achieving a first intent, where the first pre...