Patent ID: 11930423
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor coupled with a non-transitory storage medium storing executable instructions, wherein the executable instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
obtain a correspondence between address information of one or more user plane function entities and user plane capabilities supported by the one or more user plane function entities;
receive a request message from an application server, wherein the request message requests to establish a session for a first service, the request message comprises service information of the first service, and the service information of the first service comprises broadcast area information of the first service or service type information of the first service, wherein the broadcast area information comprises a cell identity (cell ID), a service area identifier (SAT), or geographical location information;
determine address information of a target user plane function entity based on the correspondence and the service information of the first service; and
establish a session connection to the target user plane function entity based on the address information of the target user plane function entity; and

wherein the apparatus implements a broadcast multicast service center control plane function entity or a multimedia broadcast multicast system gateway control plane function entity.