ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,383, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Mapping a network address of an application server to a data network access identifier" was invented by Yixue Lei (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method includes generating a first signaling message by a core network (CN) entity for interacting with an application function (AF) entity. The first signaling message includes a network address of an application server, the network address of the application server being determined by the CN entity based on a mapping relationship between a data network access ...