US 11,690,116 B2
Communication method, communications apparatus, and storage medium
Tingting Geng, Shanghai (CN); Yinghao Jin, Shanghai (CN); Hongping Zhang, Shanghai (CN); and Le Yan, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Nov. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/104,633.
Application 17/104,633 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2019/089312, filed on May 30, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 201810542736.X (CN), filed on May 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0112614 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 76/19 (2018.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 76/19 (2018.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, performed by a first network device or a chipset configured to be disposed in the first network device, comprising:
receiving, from a second network device, first indication information, the first indication information comprising information indicating a third network device, the second network device being an original master network device of a terminal device in a connected state before the first network device receiving the first indication information, the third network device being an original secondary network device of the terminal device in the connected state, the first network device being a new master network device of the terminal device in an inactive state after the second network device being the original master network device of the terminal device in the connected state; and
determining the third network device to be a new secondary network device of the terminal device in the inactive state after the second network device being the original master network device of the terminal device in the connected state based on the first indication information.