US 12,149,584 B2
Application relocation method and apparatus
Cuili Ge, Beijing (CN); and Yanmei Yang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/562,742.
Application 17/562,742 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/097770, filed on Jun. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910579271.X (CN), filed on Jun. 28, 2019; and application No. 201911137003.9 (CN), filed on Nov. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0124147 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 67/1021 (2022.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 67/1021 (2013.01) [H04W 4/025 (2013.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.02); H04W 40/248 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An application relocation method, comprising:
receiving, by a source edge enabler server (EES) from a third generation partnership project (3GPP) core network, a third message indicating a terminal apparatus user plane path change;
sending, by the source EES to a target EES in accordance with the third message, a first message that is used to request to relocate an application of the terminal apparatus, wherein the first message comprises;
an identifier of the terminal apparatus, and
an identifier of the application; and
receiving, by the source EES from the target EES in response to the first message, a second message that is used to indicate whether a relocation of the application of the terminal apparatus is allowed.