Patent ID: 8625530

Claim:
A data processing method, comprising: when a user equipment (UE) is handed over from an originating network to a receiving network, receiving, by the originating network, a data forwarding address obtained by the receiving network; creating a data forwarding tunnel between an originating network gateway and a receiving network gateway according to the data forwarding address; and forwarding data to the receiving network through the data forwarding tunnel, wherein when the receiving network is a high rate packet data (HRPD) network and the originating network is an evolved UMTS terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN), the method further comprises: obtaining, by an HRPD access network (HRPD AN) of the HRPD network, the data forwarding address from a gateway packet data serving node (PDSN) of the HRPD network; and the process of receiving, by the originating network, the data forwarding address obtained by the receiving network comprises receiving, by a mobility management entity (MME) of the E-UTRAN, the data forwarding address from the HRPD AN.