Patent ID: 11963242
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A communications apparatus, comprising:
a transmitter;
at least one processor coupled with the transmitter; and
one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to:
determine that a type of a service requested by a terminal is a local area network (LAN) service;
obtain LAN service information corresponding to the terminal, wherein the LAN service information comprises an identifier of a LAN group corresponding to the terminal, wherein the obtain the LAN service information corresponding to the terminal comprises:
receive, through a receiver, an uplink packet from a user plane network element; and
obtain the LAN service information corresponding to the uplink packet;

allocate a user plane LAN identifier to the terminal based on the LAN service information;
determine flow characteristic information of the terminal, wherein the flow characteristic information comprises at least one of a session identifier, a quality of service flow identifier (QFI), a tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID), or a QFI; and
send, through the transmitter, a LAN identification rule and the user plane LAN identifier to the user plane network element, wherein the LAN identification rule comprises a correspondence between the flow characteristic information and the user plane LAN identifier.