US 12,267,883 B2
Session management method and system, and device
Qianghua Zhu, Beijing (CN); Wenfu Wu, Shanghai (CN); and Qi Yao, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Jul. 31, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/944,691.
Application 16/944,691 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2019/072119, filed on Jan. 17, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 201810108388.5 (CN), filed on Feb. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0367296 A1, Nov. 19, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04L 67/14 (2022.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01); H04L 101/622 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 76/10 (2018.02) [H04L 67/14 (2013.01); H04W 60/00 (2013.01); H04L 2101/622 (2022.05)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A session management method, comprising:
obtaining, by a terminal, terminal media access control (MAC) address information related to an existing Ethernet session of the terminal, wherein the terminal MAC address information related to the existing Ethernet session of the terminal comprises a terminal MAC address list available for the existing Ethernet session of the terminal;
in response to determining, by the terminal based on the terminal detecting a new terminal MAC address, that the new terminal MAC address is not in the terminal MAC address list available for the existing Ethernet session of the terminal, determining, by the terminal, that a new Ethernet session needs to be established for the terminal; and
initiating, by the terminal, establishment of the new Ethernet session for the terminal.