| CPC H04W 68/005 (2013.01) [H04W 72/232 (2023.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A paging indication method, wherein the method comprises:
receiving, by a terminal device, downlink control information (DCI) from a network device, wherein
the DCI indicates whether M terminal devices in N groups are paged,
the terminal device is one of the M terminal devices, and is located in a group among the N groups,
M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and
N is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to M; and
in response to determining that the group in which the terminal device is located is paged, receiving, by the terminal device, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by another piece of DCI from the network device, wherein the PDSCH carries a paging message.
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