US Patent Application 18337054. COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS simplified abstract
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COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS
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COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 18337054 Titled 'COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS'
Simplified Explanation
This application provides a way for user equipment to communicate with an access network device. When a certain condition is met, the access network device notifies the user equipment that a multicast session is to be released or deactivated. If the user equipment is still interested in the multicast service, it can inform the access network device. The access network device then decides whether to continue releasing or deactivating the multicast session based on whether it receives feedback from the user equipment within a set time period. This solution helps manage multicast sessions for idle user equipment that can still receive multicast data.
Original Abstract Submitted
This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. In a technical solution of this application, when a preset condition is met, an access network device notifies user equipment that a multicast session is to be released or is to be deactivated. If the multicast session is being used or is to be used, the user equipment may feed back to the access network device that the user equipment is still interested in a multicast service. The access network device may determine, based on whether the feedback from the user equipment is received within a preset time period, whether to continue to release or deactivate the multicast session. In this way, when user equipment in an idle state can receive multicast data, this technical solution can properly manage the multicast session.
