Patent ID: 11895617
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. A message identification apparatus, comprising:
a non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon; and
a processor configured to execute the instructions, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor facilitates the following being performed by the message identification apparatus:
receiving a paging message from an access network device at a paging occasion, wherein the paging occasion corresponds to a time-frequency resource;
identifying, based on the time-frequency resource, a core network entity to which the paging message belongs, wherein identifying the core network entity to which the paging message belongs based on the time-frequency resource comprises: distinguishing between whether the paging message belongs to an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network entity and whether the paging message belongs to a Next Generation Core (NG-Core) network entity based on whether the paging message was received at a first paging occasion corresponding to the EPC network entity or whether the paging message was received at a second paging occasion corresponding to the NG-Core network entity, respectively, wherein in case that the paging message was received at the first paging occasion corresponding to the EPC network entity, the identified core network entity is the EPC network entity, and in case that the paging message was received at the second paging occasion corresponding to the NG-Core network entity, the identified core network entity is the NG-Core network entity; and
establishing a data connection to the core network entity to which the paging message belongs.