Patent ID: 11963218
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A communications method applied in a terminal device, comprising:
receiving a first message from a first access network device, wherein the first message comprises a group identifier corresponding to a terminal device and an identifier of the terminal device, wherein the group identifier is used to identify a group to which the terminal device belongs, wherein the identifier of the terminal device is used to identify the terminal device in the group to which the terminal device belongs, wherein the group identifier corresponds to a common context shared by all terminal devices in the group to which the terminal device belongs, and wherein the identifier of the terminal device corresponds to a dedicated context of the terminal device; and
storing the group identifier and the identifier of the terminal device, wherein the group includes a plurality of candidate terminal devices that include the terminal device, and wherein a context of each of the candidate terminal devices includes the common context and a dedicated context specific to the candidate terminal device.