Patent ID: 8611316

Claim:
A communication method for a terminal leaving an idle mode, the method comprising: triggering a flow of the terminal leaving the idle mode to perform a network re-access; acquiring, by a serving base station, session information of the terminal from an access service network gateway (ASN-GW) in which an anchor paging controller of the terminal is located, wherein the session information carries information of anchor function entities of the terminal, wherein the information of the anchor function entities is used for the terminal leaving the idle mode and re-accessing the network, and the information of the anchor function entities comprises at least one of: an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a physical network element in which an anchor authenticator is located, and an IP address of a physical network element in which an anchor foreign agent is located; establishing, by the serving base station, a service transmission path from the terminal to a home agent according to the session information of the terminal; wherein, before the acquiring, by the serving base station, the session information of the terminal from the ASN-GW in which the anchor paging controller of the terminal is located, the method further comprises: verifying, by the serving base station, legality of a received access request message according to an authorization key and context information of the terminal; wherein if the serving base station does not have the authorization key and context information of the terminal, an anchor authenticator generates and sends an authorization key and context to the terminal, wherein generating and sending an authorization key and context to the terminal comprises: finding by the anchor authenticator a master session key and s pairing master key information of the terminal according to identification information of the terminal; generating the authorization key and context for the terminal according to the identification of the current serving base station; and sending the authorization key and context to the terminal, after receiving a request for the authorization key and context.