ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,169, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method for small data transmission" was invented by He Huang (Guangdong, China), Zijiang Ma (Guangdong, China), Wei Ma (Guangdong, China) and Chen Lu (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication method for use in an anchor node includes receiving, from a serving node, a context request associated with a wireless terminal and an indication for a small data transmission. A first message is transmitted to a serving node and includes configuration information of the small data transmission. A second message is received from the serving node...