18963882. ALTO PROTOCOL-BASED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS (HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.)

ALTO PROTOCOL-BASED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS

Organization Name

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Inventor(s)

Shuping Peng of Beijing CN

Qin Wu of Nanjing CN

Dawei Fan of Beijing CN

Bo Wu of Nanjing CN

ALTO PROTOCOL-BASED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18963882 titled 'ALTO PROTOCOL-BASED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS

Original Abstract Submitted

Embodiments of this application disclose an application layer traffic optimization ALTO protocol-based communication method and a related apparatus. The method includes: An ALTO server sends first information to an ALTO client according to an ALTO protocol, where the first information indicates one or more network services available in a first network, and the first information is used by a first device associated with the ALTO client to obtain the one or more network services. In embodiments of this application, a network service allocation (or network service exposure) interface is provided according to the ALTO protocol. This improves efficiency of system interconnection between an operator and a service provider, reduces difficulty in exposing a network service by the operator, reduces difficulty of network service rollout, and improves timeliness of network service rollout.