Patent ID: 9538462
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for minimization of drive tests (MDT), comprising: in a process of activating an MDT task, checking, by an access network element, another user consent type of a selected terminal, wherein the another user consent type indicating whether the selected terminal agrees to execute the MDT task; sending, by the access network element, an MDT task activation command to the selected terminal if the selected terminal agrees to execute the MDT task; receiving, by an access network element, an MDT data reported by the selected terminal; checking, by the access network element, a user consent type of the selected terminal, wherein the user consent type indicating a reporting mode of the MDT task for the selected terminal, and wherein the reporting mode comprises: reporting a user identifier or un-reporting a user identifier; and if the reporting mode is the reporting a user identifier, sending, by the access network element, a query request to a core network element, wherein the query request is used by the core network element to send the user identifier to an MDT data collection entity.