Patent ID: 11917498
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. The communication method according to claim 1, further comprising:
receiving, by the unicast user plane gateway from a second core network device, second indication information indicating to send the target data received from the multicast user plane gateway to the terminal on the target unicast transmission path, wherein the second core network device is a control plane session management network element that manages the target unicast transmission path and initiates a switch from transmission of the target data from a multicast mode to a unicast mode via the target unicast transmission path;
receiving, by the unicast user plane gateway, the target data; and, sending, by the unicast user plane gateway, the target data to the terminal on the target unicast transmission path based on the second indication information.