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

Claim 5:
6. A communications apparatus, comprising:
a receiver;
a transmitter;
at least one processor coupled with the transmitter and the receiver; 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:
receive, through the receiver, a first packet from a first device;
determine a user plane local area network (LAN) identifier corresponding to the first packet, wherein the user plane LAN identifier is a user plane identifier of a LAN group, wherein the determine the user plane LAN identifier comprises:
determine flow characteristic information of the first packet, wherein the flow characteristic information comprises at least one of a session identifier, a quality of service flow identifier (QFI), or a tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID); and
determine, according to a LAN identification rule, the user plane LAN identifier corresponding to the first packet, wherein the LAN identification rule comprises a correspondence between the flow characteristic information and the user plane LAN identifier; and

send, through the transmitter, the first packet to a second device based on the user plane LAN identifier and a destination address in the first packet.