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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2020
Applicant:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 68/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08);
Abstract
A communications method and apparatus, where the method includes: acquiring, by a mobility management entity (MME), information of a user equipment (UE); determining, by the MME according to the information, whether the UE satisfies a first preset condition; if the UE satisfies the first preset condition, generating, by the MME, a first indication, where the first indication is used for instructing a serving gateway (SGW) to retain first data or discard first data, and the first data is downlink data of the UE; and sending, by the MME, the first indication to the SGW.