| CPC H04W 76/18 (2018.02) [H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04B 7/0639 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims | 

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               1. A communication method, comprising: 
            receiving a first message from a network device, wherein the first message indicates a terminal device to measure a reference signal of a first cell and report a configuration measurement result, and wherein the first message comprises an indicator, and the indicator indicates whether a physical layer coding format is to be used to report the configuration measurement result, and the first cell comprises at least one non-serving cell of a terminal device; and 
                obtaining a measurement result of the first cell based on the first message. 
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