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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2022
Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd., Dongguan, CN;
Zhe Fu, Dongguan, CN;
Wenqiang Tian, Dongguan, CN;
GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD., Dongguan, CN;
Abstract
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a handover method and device, capable of taking information on a slice requested to be handed over and/or information on a slice supported by a target network element into account in a handover process, thereby avoiding impact of introduction of network slicing on cell handover. The handover method includes: determining, by a first device, a handover behavior based on target slice information. The target slice information includes information on a slice requested to be handed over and/or information on a slice supported by a target network element. The handover behavior includes: whether to perform handover and/or whether to perform slice remapping or slice fallback during a handover process.