Patent ID: 9271139
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A session management method based on a machine-to-machine (M2M) application, the method comprising: acquiring gateway equipment information and group number information of a group user device, wherein the acquiring the gateway equipment information and the group number information of the group user device comprises: sending, by a mobility management network element, a first created request message to a gateway equipment that is one of a serving gateway and a gateway general packet radio service (GPRS) support node, wherein the first created request message sent by the mobility management network element comprises the mobility management network element information and the group number information of the group user device; and receiving, by the mobility management network element, a first created response message from the gateway equipment, wherein the created response message comprises gateway equipment information and the group number information of the group user device; determining that group information of the group user device has changed; instructing the gateway equipment to execute bearer change processing on the group user device, the instructing being based on the gateway equipment information and the group number information of the group user device; and executing the bearer change processing on the group user device.