Patent ID: 11895083
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and a non-transitory memory coupled to the at least one processor, and configured to store non-transitory instructions, and in response to being executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:
obtain an identifier of a first application from a terminal device, wherein the identifier of the first application indicates a request for obtaining an address of an instance of the first application;
send a first message to a first network device, wherein the first message comprises the identifier of the first application, and the first message is useable to request the address of the instance of the first application; and
receive the address of the instance of the first application from the first network device, and send the address of the instance of the first application to the terminal device.