Patent ID: 11963218
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A communications method, comprising:
receiving, by a second access network device, a second message from a terminal device, wherein a group includes a plurality of candidate terminal devices that include the terminal device, and wherein a context of each of the candidate terminal devices includes a common context and a dedicated context specific to the candidate terminal device, wherein the second message is usable for the terminal device to request to access the second access network device;
determining, by the second access network device based on the second message, a group identifier corresponding to the terminal device and an identifier of the terminal device, wherein the group identifier is used to identify the group to which the terminal device belongs, wherein the identifier of the terminal device is used to identify the terminal device in the group to which the terminal device belongs, and wherein the identifier of the terminal device corresponds to the dedicated context of the terminal device;
sending, by the second access network device, a third message to a first access network device, wherein the third message comprises the group identifier and the identifier of the terminal device; and
receiving, by the second access network device, a third response message from the first access network device, wherein the third response message comprises the dedicated context.