Patent ID: 11930408
Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A timer-based processing method, applied to a terminal device and comprising:
obtaining a first timer of a source network device; and
monitoring and maintaining a connection between the terminal device and the source network device based on the first timer of the source network device, in response to the terminal device connecting to a target network device;
wherein the method further comprises:
during monitoring the source network device based on the first timer of the source network device:
starting the first timer of the source network device in response to a starting condition of the first timer being met;
stopping the first timer of the source network device in response to a stopping condition of the first timer being met, wherein the stopping condition of the first timer comprises the terminal device connecting to the target network device successfully; and disconnecting from the source network device in response to expiry of the first timer corresponding to the source network device;
wherein the starting condition of the first timer comprises one of:
reception of a handover (HO) command for the target network device; or reception of a physical-layer asynchronous indication.