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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2023
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Guangdong, CN;
Chunhua You, Shanghai, CN;
Xiaoying Xu, Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
This application provides a communication method and apparatus. One example method includes receiving, by a central unit of a first network device, a retrieve user equipment (UE) context request from a second network device; sending, by the central unit of the first network device, a context of a terminal device in an inactive state to the second network device; and upon receiving the retrieve UE context request, sending, by the central unit of the first network device, a first message to a distributed unit of the first network device, where the first message indicates the distributed unit of the first network device to release a context of the terminal device.