Patent ID: 11943304
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. An information processing method, comprising:
receiving, by a session management network element, a tunnel configuration policy from a core network control plane network element;
selecting, by the session management network element, a user plane function network element based on the tunnel configuration policy and user plane function network element capability information, and sending, by the session management network element, first shared tunnel establishment information to the user plane function network element selected by the session management network element based on the tunnel configuration policy and the user plane function network element capability information; and
determining, by the session management network element, an access network node according to the tunnel configuration policy, and sending, by the session management network element, second shared tunnel establishment information to the access network node, wherein
the first shared tunnel establishment information and the second shared tunnel establishment information are used to establish a shared tunnel between the access network node and the user plane function network element.