ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,835, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-connectivity communication method and apparatus" was invented by Xingxing Hu (Shanghai) and Tingting Geng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-connectivity communication method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: A terminal device obtains a first rule from a master node; and in response to the terminal device detecting a link problem of the master node, the terminal device determines, according to the first rule, a first secondary node from N secondary nodes configured for the terminal device, where Nless ...