Patent ID: 11943286
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A communication method, comprising:
receiving, by a first multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform, a third message from a core network control plane network element, wherein the third message is used to notify that a user plane path of a terminal device has changed;
obtaining, by the first MEC platform based on the third message, information about a source application instance of an application accessed by the terminal device and information about a target application instance of the application; and
migrating, by the first MEC platform, a user context of the application from the source application instance to the target application instance, wherein the source application instance is deployed on the first MEC platform, and the target application instance is deployed on a second MEC platform.