Patent ID: 11924024
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A switching method, applied to a second-type communication node and comprising:
acquiring protection group switching related state information of a local first-type communication node and protection group switching related state information of an opposite first-type communication node; and
synchronizing the protection group switching related state information of the local first-type communication node to the opposite first-type communication node;
wherein protection group members and protection group information of each of the protection group members are configured by the first-type communication node;
wherein the protection group members comprise the local first-type communication node and the opposite first-type communication node; wherein
the protection group information of the local first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration; and
the protection group information of the opposite first-type communication node at least comprises a configuration of a protection group member, a priority configuration of the protection group member and a protection group related configuration.