MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527077991 A) filed by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Guangdong, China, on Aug. 16, for 'communication method and apparatus.'

Inventor(s) include Pan, Xiaodan; Peng, Wenjie; and Wang, Rui.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 5, under issue no. 36/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and apparatus, which are capable of solving the problem of data packet loss caused by asynchronous local identity (ID) updating time of a remote UE and a relay UE, and can be applied to U2N or a multi-path relay communication system. The method comprises: a relay terminal device receives first configuration information from a network device, wherein the first configuration information comprises a first local ID and a first ID, the first local ID is an ID allocated by the network device and used for identifying a remote terminal device, and the first ID is an ID allocated by the remote terminal device and used for identifying the remote terminal device; the remote terminal device communicates with the network device by means of the relay terminal device; the relay terminal device receives a first data packet according to the first ID, and processes the first data packet according to the first configuration information, wherein the first data packet carries a second local ID, and the second local ID is an ID configured by the network device for the remote terminal device and used for identifying the remote terminal device."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 12, 2023, under International application No.PCT/CN2023/138164.

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