Patent ID: 11956756
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A request processing method carried out by a core network control plane, the method comprising:
determining, by an access and mobility management function of the core network control plane, a plurality of control plane function entities for a terminal device, wherein each control plane function entity among the plurality of control plane function entities is configured to serve the terminal device;
determining, by the access and mobility management function, that the terminal device is in an idle state;
receiving, by the access and mobility management function, a first service invocation request from a first control plane function entity among the plurality of control plane function entities, wherein the first service invocation request comprises a first allocation retention priority (ARP), and wherein the first service invocation request is used to request the access and mobility management function to page the terminal device determined to be in the idle state; and
processing, by the access and mobility management function in accordance with the determining that the terminal device is in the idle state, the first service invocation request, by:
rejecting the first service invocation request in accordance with the first ARP being less than or equal to a level of a highest priority ARP of another service invocation request, among service invocation requests already processed by the access and mobility management function for the plurality of control plane function entities, used to request the access and mobility management function to page the terminal device determined to be in the idle state; and
accepting the first service invocation request in accordance with the first ARP being greater than the level of the highest priority ARP of another service invocation request, among service invocation requests already processed by the access and mobility management function for the plurality of control plane function entities, used to request the access and mobility management function to page the terminal device determined to be in the idle state.