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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2022
Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Shenzhen, CN;
Chunshan Xiong, Shenzhen, CN;
TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED, Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
Embodiments of this application provide a multicast communication method and related apparatus. The multicast communication method is implemented by a user equipment and includes receiving UE route selection policy (URSP) information transmitted by a policy control function entity, the URSP information including a URSP rule supporting a multicast service; querying the URSP rule supporting the multicast service according to a multicast network address corresponding to a multicast service context that needs to be activated, to obtain network slice information and data network name information; and activating Multicast and Broadcast Service (MBS) context information of the user equipment based on the network slice information and the data network name information, adding the user equipment to a multicast group corresponding to the multicast network address for multicast communication.