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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2019
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Guangdong, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
This application provides a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first communications device, authorization information, where the authorization information indicates that a second communications device is a device that needs to perform time synchronization; and providing, by the first communications device, time information for the second communications device based on the authorization information; or obtaining, by the first communications device, authorization information, where the authorization information indicates that the second communications device is not a device that needs to perform time synchronization; and skipping, by the first communications device, providing time information for the second communications device based on the authorization information, to avoid broadcasting the time information to all communications devices, so that a time synchronization service can be provided for a specific communications device.