Communications method and apparatus
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsHuan Li, Hualin Zhu, Guowei Ouyang
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Abstract
A communications method includes receiving, by a session management network element, a message for requesting to establish or modify a session, and determining, by the session management network element based on an access technology type corresponding to the session, whether to send a request message to an access management network element in the first communications network, where the request message requests the access management network element to allocate a connection identifier of a connection of the session in a second communications network.
Claims17
A method, comprising:
- receiving a first message requesting to establish a session in a fifth generation (5G) network, wherein a connection of the session is a quality of service (QoS) flow;
- and determining, based on an access technology type corresponding to the session, whether to send, to an access management network element in the 5G network, a request message requesting to allocate a bearer identifier to a bearer of a fourth generation (4G) network, wherein the bearer corresponds to the QoS flow, and wherein determining whether to send the request message comprises:
- determining that the access technology type is a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) access;
- and skipping sending the request message to the access management network element.
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory configured to store instructions;
- and one or more processors coupled to the memory, wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to be configured to:
- receive a first message requesting to establish a session in a fifth generation (5G) network, wherein a connection of the session is a quality of service (QoS) flow;
- and determine, based on an access technology type corresponding to the session, whether to send, to an access management network element in the 5G network, a request message requesting to allocate a bearer identifier to a bearer of a fourth generation (4G) network, wherein the bearer corresponds to the QoS flow, and wherein determining whether to send the request message comprises:
- determining that the access technology type is a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) access;
- and skipping sending the request message to the access management network element.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a session management network element, a message requesting to establish a session in a fifth generation (5G) network, wherein a connection of the session is a quality of service (QoS) flow;
- sending, by an access management network element, an access technology type corresponding to the session to the session management network element;
- receiving, by the session management network element, the access technology type;
- and determining, by the session management network element based on the access technology type, whether to send, to the access management network element, a request message requesting to allocate a bearer identifier to a bearer of a fourth generation (4G) network wherein the bearer corresponds to the QoS flow, and wherein determining whether to send the request message comprises:
- determining that the access technology type is a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) access;
- and skipping sending the request message to the access management network element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.