公开(公告)号：US08719427B2

公开(公告)日：2014-05-06

申请号：US14010324

申请日：2013-08-26

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Cheng Huang ,  Lunjian Mu ,  Yonggang Bian ,  Yongjing Zhang ,  Lei Jin

IPC: G06F15/16

CPC classification number: H04L41/00 ,  H04L12/185 ,  H04L41/0213 ,  H04L41/0853 ,  H04L41/0893 ,  H04W4/08 ,  H04W4/70

Abstract: A group communication method is provided, including: receiving, from a network application, a group access request that requests access to a group, where the group access request includes a group identifier of the group; obtaining group member information of all group members in the group according to the group identifier; according to the group member information, determining members of a first group that are connected to a service function entity through a same gateway in the group; and sending, to the gateway, a first group member access request that requests access to the members of the first group. In addition, a service function entity for group communication and a gateway for group communication are provided. The present invention is capable of reducing signaling overhead during group communication and thereby improving group communication efficiency.

Abstract translation: 提供一种组通信方法，包括：从网络应用接收请求接入组的组访问请求，其中组访问请求包括组的组标识符; 根据组标识符获取组中所有组成员的组成员信息; 根据所述组成员信息，通过所述组中的相同网关来确定连接到服务功能实体的第一组的成员; 以及向所述网关发送请求访问所述第一组的成员的第一组成员访问请求。 另外，提供了用于组通信的服务功能实体和用于群组通信的网关。 本发明能够减少组通信期间的信令开销，从而提高组通信效率。