Patent ID: 11871273
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. The method of claim 6, wherein:
the TDI is a first TDI;
the UPE is a user plane function (UPF), the packet handling rules comprise one of:
a second TDI for detecting traffic; and
the second TDI and a traffic differentiation indicator indicating whether to include the second TDI when routing a data packet;

the packet handling rules are sent as part of a packet detection rule (PDR) and a forwarding action rule (FAR), wherein the PDR comprises the second TDI, and the FAR comprises the traffic differentiation indicator when the packet handling rules include the traffic differentiation indicator;
the packet handling rules further comprise one or more of a packet filter and a packet flow description; and
the selecting a user plane connection based on a tunnel header of the tunneled data packet comprises: selecting the user plane connection based on the first TDI and the packet handling rules.