Patent ID: 11963132
Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A paging method, comprising:
determining, by a base station, a paging type of a paging for a UE upon the base station initiates the paging for the UE, the paging type comprising an access network paging initiated by an access network or a core network paging initiated by a core network; and
transmitting, by the base station, a paging message for determining the paging type to the UE, to enable the UE to update each of states of a NAS and a RRC layer for the UE into an idle state in response to that the paging type corresponding to the paging message is a core network paging,
wherein determining, by the base station, the paging type of the paging for the UE comprises:
determining, by the base station, whether the paging type is the core network paging or the access network paging in accordance with an initiator which has initiated the paging.