CN112770392A

CN112770392A - Communication configuration method and device

Info

Publication number: CN112770392A
Application number: CN201911059919.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李男; 陈宁宇; 邵哲
Original assignee: China Mobile Communications Group Co Ltd; China Mobile Communications Ltd Research Institute
Current assignee: China Mobile Communications Group Co Ltd; China Mobile Communications Ltd Research Institute
Priority date: 2019-11-01
Filing date: 2019-11-01
Publication date: 2021-05-07
Also published as: WO2021082782A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a communication configuration method and equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps: and sending a first message to network equipment, wherein the first message indicates that a first user identity module and a second user identity module are two user identity modules of the terminal. In the embodiment of the invention, the terminal sends the identifiers of the first user identity module and the second user identity module to the network side, and the network side knows that the first user identity module and the second user identity module belong to the same terminal, and can be configured to page the first user identity module and the second user identity module by using one identifier and/or one set of paging configuration. For the terminal side, only one radio frequency link can be used for receiving the paging message, so that the paging missing is avoided. For the network side, it is not necessary to send paging messages to the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, and the paging messages can be received by one of the subscriber identity modules, so that the paging resource overhead is saved.

Description

Communication configuration method and device

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a communication configuration method and equipment.

Background

In the prior art, for a dual card terminal equipped with a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card 1 and a SIM card 2, a base station does not know whether the terminal is a dual card terminal or a single card terminal. The SIM card 1 is one terminal and the SIM card 2 is the other terminal, seen from the network side. Suppose that the base station 1 serves the SIM card 1, the base station 2 serves the SIM card 2, and the base station 1 and the base station 2 respectively send Paging messages to the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2, that is, the Paging messages are independent and are all issued at Paging Frame (PF)/Paging Occasion (PO) time of Paging, and the Paging messages carry terminal identifiers.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a communication configuration method and equipment, which solve the problem that a multi-card terminal omits paging of one or more user identity modules of the multi-card terminal at a network side.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a communication configuration method, which is applied to a terminal, where the terminal includes: at least two subscriber identity modules, the at least two subscriber identity modules comprising: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the method comprises:

and sending a first message to network equipment, wherein the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

Optionally, the first message is used to request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module with a terminal identifier, or request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module with a set of paging configurations.

Optionally, the first message carries at least one of:

paging configuration request information;

and the terminal identification is information used for paging the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module by the network equipment.

Optionally, in a case that the first message only carries the paging configuration request information, the paging configuration request information includes the terminal identifier.

Optionally, the terminal identifier is an identifier of the first subscriber identity module and/or an identifier of the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

receiving a second message sent by the network device, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

the terminal receives the paging message of the first subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module;

the terminal receives a paging message of the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

the terminal receives paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

and the terminal receives the paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

receiving a third message comprising one or more of:

the first subscriber identity module or a paging configuration for paging the second subscriber identity module;

a paging merging configuration of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, where the paging merging configuration is used for any one of:

informing the terminal to receive the paging message of the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

informing the terminal to receive the paging message of the first subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module;

informing the terminal to receive paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

and informing the terminal to receive the paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises any one of:

receiving, by the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries an identifier of the second subscriber identity module;

and receiving a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module through the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the identifier of the first subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and sending a response message of the fourth message to the network equipment through the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries an identifier of the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

determining that the fifth message is a paging message of the first subscriber identity module;

sending a response message of the paging message through the first subscriber identity module;

or,

determining that the fifth message is a paging message of the second subscriber identity module;

and sending a response message of the paging message through the second subscriber identity module.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a communication configuration method, applied to a network device, where the method includes:

and receiving a first message, wherein the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

sending a second message to the terminal, wherein the second message is used for indicating any one of the following items:

Optionally, the method further comprises:

sending a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module to the first subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries an identifier of the second subscriber identity module; or

And sending a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module to the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the identifier of the first subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and sending a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module to the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fifth message carries the identifier of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the first message is used to request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module with a terminal identifier, or request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module with a set of paging configurations.

Optionally, the first message carries at least one of:

paging configuration request information;

Optionally, in a case that the first message only carries paging configuration request information, the paging configuration request information includes the terminal identifier.

Optionally, the terminal identifier is an identifier of the first subscriber identity module or an identifier of the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

sending a third message to the terminal, wherein the third message comprises one or more of the following items:

paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module;

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a communication configuration method, which is applied to a terminal, where the terminal includes at least two user identity modules, where the at least two user identity modules include: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the method comprises:

receiving a paging message of the second subscriber identity module using a paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

receiving paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module using a paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

and receiving the paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

receiving a third message sent by a network device, where the third message includes one or more of the following:

Optionally, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries information of the second subscriber identity module; or

And receiving a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module through the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the information of the first subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries information of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

or,

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a communication configuration method, which is applied to a network device, where the method includes:

sending a second message, the second message indicating any one of:

the terminal receives a paging message of a second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

the terminal receives paging messages of the first user identity module and the second user identity module by using the paging configuration of the second user identity module;

the terminal comprises at least two user identity modules, wherein the at least two user identity modules comprise: the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

sending a third message, the third message including one or more of:

Optionally, the method further comprises:

sending a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module to the first subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries information of the second subscriber identity module; or

And sending a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module to the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the information of the first subscriber identity module.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal includes: at least two subscriber identity modules, the at least two subscriber identity modules comprising: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the terminal further comprises:

a first sending module, configured to send a first message to the network device, where the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal includes: at least two subscriber identity modules, the at least two subscriber identity modules comprising: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the terminal further comprises: a first transceiver and a first processor;

the first transceiver is configured to send a first message to the network device, where the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

In a seventh aspect, the present invention provides a network device, where the network device includes:

and the fourth receiving module is used for receiving a first message, wherein the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

In an eighth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device includes: a second transceiver and a second processor;

the second transceiver is configured to receive a first message indicating that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

In a ninth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal includes at least two user identity modules, where the at least two user identity modules include: the terminal comprises a first user identity module and a second user identity module, and the terminal further comprises:

a fifth receiving module, configured to receive a second message sent by a network device, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

In a tenth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal includes at least two user identity modules, where the at least two user identity modules include: the terminal comprises a first user identity module and a second user identity module, and the terminal further comprises: a third transceiver and a third processor;

the third transceiver is configured to receive a second message sent by a network device, where the second message is used to indicate any one of:

In an eleventh aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device includes:

a ninth sending module, configured to send a second message, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

the terminal receives the paging message of the first subscriber identity module using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module

In a twelfth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device includes: a fourth transceiver and a fourth processor;

the fourth transceiver is configured to transmit a second message, where the second message is used to indicate any one of:

In a thirteenth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including: a processor, a memory and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program implementing the steps of the communication configuration method according to the first aspect or the steps of the communication configuration method according to the third aspect when executed by the processor.

In a fourteenth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, including: a processor, a memory and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program implementing the steps of the communication configuration method according to the second aspect or the steps of the communication configuration method according to the fourth aspect when executed by the processor.

In a fifteenth aspect, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the communication configuration method described above are implemented.

In the embodiment of the invention, the terminal sends the identifiers of the first user identity module and the second user identity module to the network side, and the network side knows that the first user identity module and the second user identity module belong to the same terminal, and can be configured to page the first user identity module and the second user identity module by using one identifier and/or one set of paging configuration.

For the terminal side, only one radio frequency link may be used to receive the paging message, for example: the terminal receives the paging message using only the first subscriber identity module and one radio frequency path. The second subscriber identity module need not monitor the paging channel during Discontinuous Reception (DRX). If the first user identity module is in a connected state at the moment, the continuity of the service can be ensured without interruption; if the first subscriber identity module is in an idle state at this time, the problem of Paging Frame (PF)/Paging Occasion (PO) collision when the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module receive the Paging message can be avoided.

Compared with the conventional scheme, when the first subscriber identity module runs low-delay or high-reliability service (such as industrial control or online game), interrupting the service of the first subscriber identity module to monitor the DRX of the second subscriber identity module to receive the paging message interrupts the communication of the first subscriber identity module. The embodiment of the invention does not need to interrupt the communication of the first user identity module, and the first user identity module in the connection state replaces the second user identity module to receive the paging message, so that the communication of the first user identity module does not need to be interrupted to monitor whether the second user identity module has paging.

For the network side, it is not necessary to send paging messages to the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, and the paging messages can be received by one of the subscriber identity modules, so that the paging resource overhead is saved.

Drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like reference numerals are used to refer to like parts throughout the drawings. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a communication configuration method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a second flowchart of a communication configuration method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a third flowchart of a communication configuration method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a fourth flowchart of a communication allocation method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a second schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 8 is a diagram of one embodiment of a network device;

FIG. 9 is a second schematic diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 10 is a third schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a fourth schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a fifth schematic diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 13 is a sixth schematic diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 14 is a fifth schematic diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 15 is a seventh schematic diagram of a network device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The problems to be solved are as follows: the dual-card terminal has the problem of missing paging if only one radio frequency link can receive/transmit

In scenario one, the SIM card 1 is in a connected state and is doing a service, such as playing a game, and the SIM card 2 is in an idle state. In order to receive the paging of the SIM card 2, the terminal needs to periodically listen to the SIM card 2 for paging. If the paging is monitored, the communication of the SIM card 1 is interrupted, the user experience is influenced, and if the paging is not monitored, the paging of the SIM card 2 is missed.

In scenario two, the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2 are both in an idle state. If the PF/PO of the received page is the same, i.e., a collision occurs, it is likely that a page will be missed.

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, in the description and claims of this application, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Furthermore, the use of "and/or" in the specification and claims means that at least one of the connected objects, such as a and/or B, means that three cases, a alone, B alone, and both a and B, exist.

In the embodiments of the present invention, words such as "exemplary" or "for example" are used to mean serving as examples, illustrations or descriptions. Any embodiment or design described as "exemplary" or "e.g.," an embodiment of the present invention is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, use of the word "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present concepts related in a concrete fashion.

The Subscriber Identity Module described herein may be a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card or a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) card or an eSIM card (alternatively referred to as an embedded SIM card).

The network devices described herein may be base stations, or core network devices, such as: access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), or Mobility Management Entity (MME), or Home Subscriber Server (HSS).

The technology described herein is not limited to a 5th-generation (5G) system and a later-evolution communication system, and is not limited to an LTE/LTE evolution (LTE-a) system, and may also be used for various wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), and other systems.

The terms "system" and "network" are often used interchangeably. CDMA systems may implement Radio technologies such as CDMA2000, Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), and so on. UTRA includes Wideband CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) and other CDMA variants. TDMA systems may implement radio technologies such as Global System for Mobile communications (GSM). The OFDMA system can implement radio technologies such as Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), evolved-UTRA (E-UTRA)), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX)), IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM, and the like. UTRA and E-UTRA are parts of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). LTE and higher LTE (e.g., LTE-A) are new UMTS releases that use E-UTRA. UTRA, E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE-A, and GSM are described in documents from an organization named "third Generation Partnership Project" (3 GPP). CDMA2000 and UMB are described in documents from an organization named "third generation partnership project 2" (3GPP 2). The techniques described herein may be used for both the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, as well as for other systems and radio technologies.

Embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The communication configuration method and the communication configuration equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a wireless communication system. Referring to fig. 1, an architecture diagram of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown. As shown in fig. 1, the wireless communication system may include: network device 10, network device 11, and terminal 12, terminal 12 may communicate (transmit signaling or transmit data) with network device 10 and network device 11. In practical applications, the connections between the above devices may be wireless connections, and fig. 1 illustrates the connections between the devices by solid lines for convenience and convenience in visual representation.

The network device 10 and the network device 11 provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be base stations, which may be commonly used base stations, evolved node base stations (enbs), or network devices in a 5G system (for example, next generation base stations (gnbs) or Transmission and Reception Points (TRPs)).

The terminal 12 provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be a multi-card terminal, for example, the terminal 12 includes: the system comprises a first user identity module and a second user identity module. The terminal may be a Mobile phone, a tablet Computer, a notebook Computer, an Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC), a netbook or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a Mobile Internet Device (MID), a Wearable Device (Wearable Device), or a vehicle-mounted Device.

Referring to fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a communication configuration method, where an execution subject of the method is a terminal, and the terminal may include: at least two subscriber identity modules, the at least two subscriber identity modules comprising: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, the method shown in fig. 2 comprising: step 201.

Step 201: and sending a first message to the network equipment, wherein the first message indicates that the first user identity module and the second user identity module are two user identity modules of the terminal.

Illustratively, the terminal may be a dual card terminal, the first subscriber identity module may be a SIM card 1, and the second subscriber identity module may be a SIM card 2.

In some embodiments, the first message is used to request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module with a terminal identifier (e.g., UE ID), or to request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module with a set of paging configurations.

The terminal identification may be associated with the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the first message may carry at least one of: (1) paging configuration request information; (2) a terminal identification (e.g., UE ID), which is information used by the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module. For example, the terminal identifier is an identifier of the first subscriber identity module, or an identifier of the second subscriber identity module, or an identifier of the first subscriber identity module and an identifier of the second subscriber identity module.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the network device obtains the terminal identifier (e.g., the UE ID), the network device may calculate the PF/PO according to the terminal identifier, and determine whether an idle-state paging collision may occur, where the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are both in an idle state, and the terminal needs to receive a paging message at the same PF/PO.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the purpose of acquiring the terminal identifier by the network device is that, when the first subscriber identity module is in a connected state, the network device may send a paging message of the second subscriber identity module to the terminal through the wireless connection of the first subscriber identity module; and when the first user identity module and the second user identity module are both in idle state, combining and sending the paging of the first user identity module and the second user identity module.

In some embodiments, in a case that the first message only carries the paging configuration request information, the paging configuration request information includes the terminal identifier (e.g., UE ID).

In some embodiments, the terminal identifier may be an identifier of the first subscriber identity module (for example, an ID of the SIM card 1) and/or an identifier of the second subscriber identity module (for example, an ID of the SIM card 2).

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 2 may further include: receiving a second message sent by the network device, wherein the second message is used for indicating any one of the following items:

(1) the terminal receives a paging message of a first subscriber identity module (e.g. SIM card 1) using a paging configuration of a second subscriber identity module (e.g. SIM card 2);

(2) receiving a paging message of a second subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 2) using a paging configuration of a first subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 1);

(3) receiving paging messages of a first subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 1) and a second subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 2) using a paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 1);

(4) a paging message for a first subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 1) and a second subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 2) is received using a paging configuration for the second subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 2).

The paging messages (or called combined paging messages) of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module in (3) and (4) above refer to messages obtained by combining, by the network device, the paging message of the first subscriber identity module and the paging message of the second subscriber identity module when both the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are in idle states.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises:

receiving a third message, wherein the third message may include one or more of the following: (1) a paging configuration for paging a first subscriber identity module or for paging a second subscriber identity module; (2) a paging merging configuration for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module. For example, the paging combining configuration may be a paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

It should be noted that the second message and the third message may be the same message, or two different messages, and if the second message and the third message are two different messages, the order of the two messages is not limited in this embodiment, for example, the second message may be received first, and then the third message may be received, or the third message may be received first, and then the second message may be received, or the second message and the third message may be received simultaneously.

Optionally, the paging merging configuration is configured to notify the terminal to receive a paging message of the second subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 2) using a paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 1), or to notify the terminal to receive a paging message of the first subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 1) using a paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module (e.g., SIM card 1).

Optionally, the paging merging configuration is configured to notify the terminal to receive a paging message (or called a merged paging message) paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module using a paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module (e.g. SIM card 1) or the second subscriber identity module (e.g. SIM card 1)

For example, the terminal may obtain the PF/PO for receiving the combined paging message according to the paging combining configuration, and the terminal uses the same set of paging configurations for the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2, that is, only uses one SIM card and one radio frequency path to receive the combined paging message of the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2.

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 2 may further include any one of:

(1) receiving, by the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries an identifier of the second subscriber identity module (for example, an ID of the SIM card 2);

(2) receiving, by the second subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries an identifier of the first subscriber identity module (for example, an ID of the SIM card 1);

in some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 2 may further include: and sending a response message of the fourth message to the network equipment through the first user identity module or the second user identity module.

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 2 may further include: and receiving a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module through the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fifth message carries the identifier of the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 2 may further include: determining that the fifth message is a paging message of a first subscriber identity module; sending a response message of the paging message through the first subscriber identity module; or, determining that the fifth message is a paging message of the second subscriber identity module; and sending a response message of the paging message through the second user identity module.

In some embodiments, the identification may include one or more of: (1) a temporary mobile subscriber identity for a service of a fifth generation mobile communication technology (e.g., ng-5G-S-TMSI); (2) a full radio network temporary identity (e.g., fullI-RNTI); (3) international Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI); (4) temporary Mobile Subscription Identifier (TMSI).

For the terminal side, only one radio frequency link may be used to receive the paging message, for example: the terminal receives the paging message using only the first subscriber identity module and one radio frequency path. The second subscriber identity module need not monitor the paging channel during DRX. If the first user identity module is in a connected state at the moment, the continuity of the service can be ensured without interruption; if the first subscriber identity module is in an idle state at this time, the problem of PF/PO collision when the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module receive the paging message can be avoided.

Referring to fig. 3, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a communication configuration method, where an execution subject of the method is a network device, where the network device may be a base station or a core network device, such as an AMF, an MME, or an HSS, and the method shown in fig. 3 includes: step 301.

Step 301: and receiving a first message, wherein the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 3 may further include: sending a second message to the terminal, wherein the second message is used for indicating any one of the following items:

In the embodiment of the present invention, optionally, the method further includes: sending a third message, wherein the third message may include one or more of the following: (1) a paging configuration for paging a first subscriber identity module or for paging a second subscriber identity module; (2) a paging merging configuration for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module. For example, the paging combining configuration may be a paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

It should be noted that the second message and the third message may be the same message, or two different messages, and if the second message and the third message are two different messages, the order of the two messages is not limited in this embodiment, for example, the second message may be sent first, then the third message may be sent, or the third message may be sent first, then the second message may be sent, or the second message and the third message may be sent simultaneously.

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 3 may further include: sending a fourth message for paging a second subscriber identity module to the first subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries an identifier of the second subscriber identity module (for example, an ID of the SIM card 2); or sending a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module to the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries an identifier of the first subscriber identity module (for example, an ID of the SIM card 1).

For example, when the first subscriber identity module is in a connected state and the second subscriber identity module is in an idle state, the paging message (fourth message) of the second subscriber identity module may be directly sent to the first subscriber identity module through the already established connection. And the paging message (fourth message) of the second subscriber identity module carries the identifier of the second subscriber identity module. After receiving the paging message, the terminal may know that the paging message is of the second subscriber identity module, but not of the first subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 3 may further include: and sending a fifth message for paging the first user identity module and the second user identity module to the first user identity module or the second user identity module, wherein the fifth message carries the identifier of the first user identity module and/or the second user identity module.

For example, when both the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are in an idle state, a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module is sent to the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the first message is used to request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module with a terminal identification (e.g., a UE ID), or to request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module with a set of paging configurations.

In some embodiments, the first message carries at least one of: (1) paging configuration request information; (2) and the terminal identification is information used by the network equipment for paging the first user identity module and/or the second user identity module.

In some embodiments, in a case that the first message only carries paging configuration request information, the paging configuration request information includes the terminal identifier.

In some embodiments, the terminal identity (e.g. UE ID) is an identity of the first subscriber identity module (e.g. ID of SIM card 1) or an identity of the second subscriber identity module (e.g. ID of SIM card 2).

In some embodiments, the identification may include one or more of: (1) a temporary mobile subscriber identity for a service of a fifth generation mobile communication technology (e.g., ng-5G-S-TMSI); (2) a full radio network temporary identity (e.g., fullI-RNTI); (3) an international mobile subscriber identity; (4) and (5) temporarily moving a subscription identifier.

Referring to fig. 4, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a communication configuration method, where an execution subject of the method is a terminal, and the terminal includes at least two user identity modules, where the at least two user identity modules include: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, the method shown in fig. 4 comprising: step 401.

Step 401: receiving a second message sent by the network device, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

The paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module in (3) and (4) above refer to messages obtained by combining the paging message of the first subscriber identity module and the paging message of the second subscriber identity module by the network when the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are both in an idle state.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: receiving a third message sent by a network device, where the third message includes one or more of the following: (1) paging configuration of a first subscriber identity module or a second subscriber identity module; (2) paging merging configuration of a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the paging merging configuration is used for notifying a terminal to receive a paging message of the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module, or notifying the terminal to receive the paging message of the first subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module; or informing the terminal to receive paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module; or informing the terminal to receive the paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 4 further comprises: receiving, by the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries information of the second subscriber identity module (for example, an ID of the SIM card 2); or receiving, by the second subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries information of the first subscriber identity module (for example, an ID of the SIM card 1).

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 4 further comprises: and sending a response message of the fourth message to the network equipment through the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 4 further comprises: receiving, by the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries information of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

For example, when both the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are in an idle state, the network device may send a fifth message to the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the method shown in fig. 4 further comprises: determining that the fifth message is a paging message of the first subscriber identity module; sending a response message of the paging message through the first subscriber identity module; or, determining that the fifth message is a paging message of the second subscriber identity module; and sending a response message of the paging message through the second subscriber identity module.

Referring to fig. 5, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a communication configuration method, where an execution subject of the method is a network device, and the method shown in fig. 5 includes: step 501.

Step 501: sending a second message to the terminal, wherein the terminal comprises at least two user identity modules, and the at least two user identity modules comprise: the system comprises a first user identity module and a second user identity module; the second message is used to indicate any one of:

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: sending a third message, the third message including one or more of: (1) paging configuration of a first subscriber identity module or a second subscriber identity module; (2) paging merging configuration of a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the paging merging configuration is used for notifying a terminal to receive a paging message of the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module, or notifying the terminal to receive the paging message of the first subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module; or informing the terminal to receive paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module; or informing the terminal to receive the paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the method illustrated in fig. 5 may further include: sending a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module to the first subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries information of the second subscriber identity module; or sending a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module to the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the information of the first subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the method illustrated in fig. 5 may further include: and sending a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module to the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fifth message carries the identifier of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

Embodiments of the present invention are described below from the central terminal side and the network side, respectively.

(first) terminal-side flow:

taking a dual-card terminal as an example, the dual-card terminal includes: the specific scheme of the SIM cards 1 and 2 is as follows:

step 1: the dual-card terminal sends a first message to the network equipment, wherein the first message carries at least one of the following: paging configuration request information, UE ID.

The network device may be a base station, or a core network device, such as an AMF or MME or HSS.

The first message is used for the terminal to request the paging configuration from the network. Optionally, the UE ID carried in the first message is IDs of 1 SIM card or IDs of two SIM cards of the dual-card terminal.

Illustratively, the network device receives a first message from the SIM card 1, from which it obtains the ID of the SIM card 2. The method for the network device to obtain the ID of the SIM card 1 may be that the network device obtains the ID of the SIM card 1 from the core network, or may also obtain the ID of the SIM card 1 through the first message.

After obtaining the UE ID, the network device may calculate PF/PO according to the ID of the SIM card 1 and the ID of the SIM card 2, and determine whether an idle (idle) state paging collision may occur, that is, the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2 are both in an idle state, and need to receive a paging message at the same PF/PO.

The purpose of obtaining the UE ID by the network side is that when the SIM card 1 is in a connected state, the network side can send the paging message of the SIM card 2 to the terminal through the wireless connection of the SIM card 1; and when the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2 are both in idle state, combining and sending the paging of the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2.

Optionally, the ID may be any one of: (1) ng-5G-S-TMSI; (2) fullI-RNTI; (3) an IMSI; (4) TMSI.

It can be understood that "paging request message paging configuration request information" is used for requesting updated paging configuration from a network by a terminal, and a relationship between the paging request message and a UE ID may be an inclusion relationship, that is, the paging request message paging configuration request information may include the UE ID, or may be a parallel relationship, that is, the first message carries information including: paging configuration request information and UE ID.

The paging request message paging configuration request message may be used for the terminal to request the network to receive the paging message of the SIM card 2 using the paging configuration of the SIM card 1. For example, the paging message of the SIM card 2 is received using PF/PO calculated by the ID of the SIM card 1.

Step 2: the dual-card terminal receives a second message sent by a network, wherein the second message carries paging configuration information, and the paging configuration information comprises at least one of the following information: paging configuration of the SIM card 1 or the SIM card 2, and paging combined configuration of the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2.

And the paging configuration of the SIM card 1 or the SIM card 2 is used for the terminal to obtain the updated PF/PO of the SIM card 1 or the SIM card 2.

(1) And the terminal receives the paging configuration information, and if the paging configuration information carries the paging configuration of the SIM card 1 or the SIM card 2, the terminal obtains the updated PF/PO of the SIM card 1 or the SIM card 2. The terminal receives a page for SIM card 1 or SIM card 2 using the updated PF/PO.

(2) The terminal receives the paging configuration information, and if the paging combination configuration of the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2 is carried, for example, the paging combination configuration is used to notify the terminal, the paging configuration of the SIM card 1 is used to receive the paging message of the SIM card 2, and illustratively, the PF/PO calculated by the ID of the SIM card 1 is used to receive the paging message of the SIM card 2.

The paging merging configuration is used for the terminal to obtain the paging configuration after the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2 are merged, and comprises PF/PO.

The terminal receives the paging combination configuration to obtain PF/PO for receiving the combined paging message, and the terminal uses the same set of paging configuration for the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2, namely only uses one SIM card and one radio frequency path to receive the paging of the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2.

Scene 1: when the SIM card 1 is in the connected state and the SIM card 2 is in the idle state, the paging message (fourth message) of the SIM card 2 may be directly sent to the SIM card 1 through the already established connection. The paging message (fourth message) of the SIM card 2 carries the ID of the SIM card 2. After the terminal receives the paging message, it can know that the paging message is from the SIM card 2, not from the SIM card 1.

After the terminal receives the fourth message, the terminal may respond to the paging message through the SIM card 1 or the SIM card 2. If the paging message is responded through the SIM card 1, the information is directly sent on the established connection; if the paging is responded through the SIM card 2, the terminal needs to establish a connection for the SIM card 2.

Scene 2: when the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2 are both in the idle state, the terminal uses the paging configuration carried in the paging merging configuration to obtain PF/PO to receive a paging message (a fifth message) of the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2, where the fifth message carries the UE ID of the SIM card 1 or the SIM card 2.

The terminal receives the fifth message from which the paging message of the SIM card 1, or the paging message of the SIM card 2, is obtained. And responds to the paging message with the corresponding SIM card.

(II) network side process:

take the network device as the core network device as an example.

Step 1: the terminal sends a first message to the core network equipment, wherein the first message carries at least one of the following: paging configuration request information, UE ID.

Step 2: the core network equipment sends configuration information to the terminal, and instructs the terminal to receive the paging messages of the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2 through the SIM card 1, or receives the paging messages of the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2 by calculating the PF/PO of the SIM card 1.

And step 3: when the paging message of the SIM card 2 exists, the core network device sends the paging message of the SIM card 2 to the base station, where the paging message carries the ID of the SIM card 2, or the core network device sends the paging message to the base station, where the paging message includes the ID of the SIM card 1 and the ID of the SIM card 2.

The information carried in the paging message is used for notifying the base station, the paging message of the SIM card 2 can be sent through the paging PF/PO of the SIM card 1, or used for notifying the base station, and the SIM card 1 and the SIM card 2 are dual-card mobile phones.

And 4, step 4: and the base station sends a paging message on the PF/PO obtained by the ID calculation of the SIM card 1, wherein the paging message carries the ID of the SIM card 2. The terminal receives the paging message through PF/PO calculated by the ID of the SIM card 1 to obtain the ID of the SIM card 2.

Referring to fig. 6, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal 600 includes: at least two subscriber identity modules, the at least two subscriber identity modules comprising: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the terminal 600 further includes:

a first sending module 601, configured to send a first message to the network device, where the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

In some embodiment modes, the first message is used to request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module with a terminal identifier, or request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module with a set of paging configurations.

In some embodiment, the first message carries at least one of: (1) paging configuration request information; (2) and the terminal identification is information used for paging the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module by the network equipment.

In some embodiment modes, when the first message only carries the paging configuration request information, the paging configuration request information includes the terminal identifier.

In some embodiment modes, the terminal identifier is an identifier of the first subscriber identity module and/or an identifier of the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment modes, the terminal 600 further includes:

a first receiving module, configured to receive a second message sent by the network device, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

(1) the terminal receives the paging message of the first subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module;

(2) the terminal receives a paging message of the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

(3) the terminal receives paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

(4) and the terminal receives the paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment modes, the first receiving module is further configured to receive a third message sent by the network device, where the third message includes one or more of the following:

(1) the first subscriber identity module or a paging configuration for paging the second subscriber identity module;

(2) the paging merging configuration of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module is used for notifying the terminal to receive the paging message of the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module, or notifying the terminal to receive the paging message of the first subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module; or informing the terminal to receive paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module; or informing the terminal to receive the paging messages of the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment modes, the terminal 600 further includes: a second receiving module configured to perform any one of:

(1) receiving, by the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries an identifier of the second subscriber identity module;

(2) and receiving a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module through the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the identifier of the first subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment modes, the terminal 600 further includes: and a second sending module, configured to send a response message of the fourth message to the network device through the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment modes, the terminal 600 further includes: a third receiving module, configured to receive, by using the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries an identifier of the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment modes, the terminal 600 further includes: the device comprises a first determining module and a third sending module;

the first determining module is configured to determine that the fifth message is a paging message of the first subscriber identity module;

the third sending module is used for sending a response message of the paging message through the first subscriber identity module;

or,

the first determining module is configured to determine that the fifth message is a paging message of the second subscriber identity module;

and the third sending module is used for sending the response message of the paging message through the second user identity module.

In some embodiments, the identification includes one or more of: (1) a temporary mobile subscriber identity for a service of a fifth generation mobile communication technology; (2) a complete wireless network temporary identifier; (3) and (5) temporarily moving a subscription identifier.

The terminal provided in the embodiment of the present invention may execute the method embodiment shown in fig. 2, which has similar implementation principles and technical effects, and this embodiment is not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 7, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal 700 includes: at least two subscriber identity modules, the at least two subscriber identity modules comprising: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the terminal 700 further comprises: a first transceiver 701 and a first processor 702;

a first transceiver 701, configured to send a first message to the network device, where the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

In some embodiment modes, the first transceiver 701 is further configured to receive a second message sent by the network device, where the second message is used to indicate any one of:

In some embodiment modes, the first transceiver 701 is further configured to receive a third message sent by the network device, where the third message includes one or more of the following:

In some embodiments, the first transceiver 701 is further configured to perform any one of the following:

In some embodiment modes, the first transceiver 701 is further configured to send a response message of the fourth message to the network device through the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment, the first transceiver 701 is further configured to receive, by the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries an identifier of the first subscriber identity module and/or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the first processor 702 is configured to determine that the fifth message is a paging message of the first subscriber identity module; the first transceiver 701 is further configured to send a response message of the paging message through the first subscriber identity module; alternatively, the first processor 702 is configured to determine that the fifth message is a paging message of the second subscriber identity module; the first transceiver 701 is further configured to send a response message of the paging message through the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the identification includes one or more of: (1) a temporary mobile subscriber identity for a service of a fifth generation mobile communication technology; (2) a complete wireless network temporary identifier; (3) an international mobile subscriber identity; (4) and (5) temporarily moving a subscription identifier.

Referring to fig. 8, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device 800 includes:

a fourth receiving module 801, configured to receive a first message, where the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

In some embodiment, the network device 800 further includes:

a fourth sending module, configured to send a second message to the terminal, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

In some embodiment modes, the fourth sending module is further configured to send a third message, where the third message includes one or more of the following:

(1) paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module;

In some embodiment, the network device 800 further includes: a fifth sending module, configured to send, to the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message used for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries an identifier of the second subscriber identity module; or sending a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module to the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries the identifier of the first subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment, the network device 800 further includes: a sixth sending module, configured to send a fifth message used for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module to the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries an identifier of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment modes, the first message is used to request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module with a terminal identifier, or request the network device to page the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module with a set of paging configurations.

In some embodiment, the first message carries at least one of: (1) paging configuration request information; (2) and the terminal identifier is information of calling the first user identity module and/or the second user identity module by the network equipment.

In some embodiment modes, when the first message only carries paging configuration request information, the paging configuration request information includes the terminal identifier.

In some embodiment, the terminal identifier is an identifier of the first subscriber identity module or an identifier of the second subscriber identity module.

The network device provided in the embodiment of the present invention may execute the method embodiment shown in fig. 3, which has similar implementation principles and technical effects, and this embodiment is not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 9, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device 900 includes: a second transceiver 901 and a second processor 902;

a second transceiver 901, configured to receive a first message, where the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

In some embodiment modes, the second transceiver 901 is further configured to send a second message to the terminal, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

In some embodiment modes, the second transceiver 901 is further configured to send a third message to the terminal, where the third message includes one or more of the following:

In some embodiment, the second transceiver 901 is further configured to send, to the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries an identifier of the second subscriber identity module; or sending a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module to the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries the identifier of the first subscriber identity module.

In some embodiment, the second transceiver 901 is further configured to send a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module to the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries an identifier of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

Referring to fig. 10, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal 1000 includes at least two subscriber identity modules, where the at least two subscriber identity modules include: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, the terminal 1000 further comprising:

a fifth receiving module 1001, configured to receive a second message sent by a network device, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

In some embodiments, the fifth receiving module 1001 is further configured to receive a third message, where the third message includes one or more of the following:

In some embodiments, terminal 1000 can further include: a sixth receiving module, configured to receive, by the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries information of the second subscriber identity module; or receiving a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module through the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the information of the first subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, terminal 1000 can further include: a seventh sending module, configured to send a response message of the fourth message to the network device through the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, terminal 1000 can further include: a seventh receiving module, configured to receive, by using the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries information of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, terminal 1000 can further include: a second determining module and an eighth sending module;

the second determining module is configured to determine that the fifth message is a paging message of the first subscriber identity module;

the eighth sending module is configured to send a response message of the paging message through the first subscriber identity module;

or,

the second determining module is configured to determine that the fifth message is a paging message of the second subscriber identity module;

the eighth sending module is configured to send a response message of the paging message through the second subscriber identity module.

The terminal provided in the embodiment of the present invention may execute the method embodiment shown in fig. 4, which has similar implementation principles and technical effects, and this embodiment is not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 11, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, where the terminal 1100 includes at least two subscriber identity modules, where the at least two subscriber identity modules include: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, the terminal 1100 further comprising: a third transceiver 1101 and a third processor 1102;

the third transceiver 1101 is configured to receive a second message sent by the network device, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

In some embodiments, the third transceiver 1101 is further configured to receive a third message including one or more of:

In some embodiments, the third transceiver 1101 is further configured to receive, by the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries information of the second subscriber identity module; or receiving a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module through the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the information of the first subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the third transceiver 1101 is further configured to send a response message of the fourth message to the network device through the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the third transceiver 1101 is further configured to receive, by the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries information of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the third processor 1102 is configured to determine that the fifth message is a paging message of the first subscriber identity module; the third transceiver 1101 is further configured to send a response message to the paging message through the first subscriber identity module; or, the third processor 1102 is configured to determine that the fifth message is a paging message of the second subscriber identity module; the third transceiver 1101 is further configured to send a response message of the paging message through the second subscriber identity module.

Referring to fig. 12, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device 1200 includes:

a ninth sending module 1201, configured to send a second message, where the second message is used to indicate any one of the following:

(1) the terminal receives the paging message of the first subscriber identity module using the paging configuration of the second subscriber identity module

(2) The terminal receives a paging message of a second subscriber identity module by using the paging configuration of the first subscriber identity module;

(4) the terminal receives paging messages of the first user identity module and the second user identity module by using the paging configuration of the second user identity module;

In some embodiments, the ninth sending module 1201 is further configured to send a third message, where the third message includes one or more of the following:

In some embodiments, the network device 1200 further comprises: a tenth sending module, configured to send, to the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message used for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries information of the second subscriber identity module; or sending a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module to the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the information of the first subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the network device 1200 further comprises: an eleventh sending module, configured to send, to the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, a fifth message for paging the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message carries an identifier of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

The network device provided in the embodiment of the present invention may execute the method embodiment shown in fig. 5, which has similar implementation principles and technical effects, and this embodiment is not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 13, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a network device, where the network device 1300 includes: a fourth transceiver 1301 and a fourth processor 1302;

a fourth transceiver 1301, configured to send a second message, where the second message is used to indicate any one of:

In some embodiments, the fourth transceiver 1301 is further configured to transmit a third message, where the third message includes one or more of the following:

In some embodiments, the fourth transceiver 1301 is further configured to send, to the first subscriber identity module, a fourth message for paging the second subscriber identity module, where the fourth message carries information of the second subscriber identity module; or sending a fourth message for paging the first subscriber identity module to the second subscriber identity module, wherein the fourth message carries the information of the first subscriber identity module.

In some embodiments, the fourth transceiver 1301 is further configured to send a fifth message to the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module, where the fifth message is used to page the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module, and the fifth message carries an identifier of the first subscriber identity module or the second subscriber identity module.

As shown in fig. 14, terminal 1400 shown in fig. 14 includes: at least one processor 1401, memory 1402, at least one network interface 1404, and a user interface 1403. The various components in terminal 1400 are coupled together by a bus system 1405. It will be appreciated that bus system 1405 is used to enable communications among the components connected. The bus system 1405 includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus, in addition to the data bus. For clarity of illustration, however, the various buses are labeled as bus system 1405 in fig. 14.

User interface 1403 may include, among other things, a display, a keyboard, or a pointing device (e.g., a mouse, trackball, touch pad, or touch screen, among others.

It will be appreciated that the memory 1402 in embodiments of the invention may be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. Volatile Memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache Memory. By way of illustration, and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static random access memory (Static RAM, SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic random access memory (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), Double Data rate Synchronous Dynamic random access memory (ddr DRAM), Enhanced Synchronous SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchronous link SDRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 1402 of the systems and methods described in connection with the embodiments of the invention is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

In some embodiments, memory 1402 holds the following elements, executable modules or data structures, or a subset thereof, or an expanded set thereof: an operating system 14021 and application programs 14022.

The operating system 14021 includes various system programs, such as a framework layer, a core library layer, a driver layer, and the like, for implementing various basic services and processing hardware-based tasks. The application 14022 contains various applications, such as a Media Player (Media Player), a Browser (Browser), and the like, for implementing various application services. A program implementing a method according to an embodiment of the invention may be included in the application 14022.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the steps of the method shown in fig. 2 or fig. 4 above are implemented by calling a program or instructions stored in the memory 1402, and in particular, a program or instructions stored in the application 14022.

The terminal provided in the embodiment of the present invention may execute the above processing method embodiment, and the implementation principle and technical effect are similar, which are not described herein again.

Referring to fig. 15, fig. 15 is a structural diagram of a network device applied in the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 15, the network device 1500 includes: a processor 1501, a transceiver 1502, a memory 1503, and a bus interface, where the processor 1501 may be responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing. Memory 1503 may store data used by processor 1501 in performing operations.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the network device 1500 further comprises: a computer program stored on the memory 1503 and executable on the processor 1501, the computer program implementing the steps in the methods shown in fig. 3 or fig. 5 above when executed by the processor 1501.

In fig. 15, the bus architecture may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, with one or more processors, represented by processor 1501, and various circuits, represented by memory 1503, linked together. The bus architecture may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver 1502 may be a plurality of elements including a transmitter and a receiver that provide a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium.

The network device provided in the embodiment of the present invention may execute the above processing method embodiment, and the implementation principle and technical effect are similar, which are not described herein again.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the disclosure herein may be embodied in hardware or may be embodied in software instructions executed by a processor. The software instructions may consist of corresponding software modules that may be stored in RAM, flash memory, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, registers, hard disk, a removable hard disk, a compact disk, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. Of course, the storage medium may also be integral to the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC. In addition, the ASIC may be carried in a core network interface device. Of course, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a core network interface device.

Those skilled in the art will recognize that, in one or more of the examples described above, the functions described in this invention may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium. Computer-readable media includes both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another. A storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer.

The above-mentioned embodiments, objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention are further described in detail, it should be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are only exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements and the like made on the basis of the technical solutions of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

Embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the embodiments of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the embodiments of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and their equivalents, the present invention is also intended to encompass such modifications and variations.

Claims

1. A communication configuration method is applied to a terminal, and the terminal comprises the following steps: at least two subscriber identity modules, the at least two subscriber identity modules comprising: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the method comprises:

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first message is used to request the network device to page the first and/or second subscriber identity module with a terminal identity or to request the network device to page the first and/or second subscriber identity module with a set of paging configurations.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a third message comprising one or more of:

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the method further comprises any one of:

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the method further comprises:

7. A communication configuration method is applied to network equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps:

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises:

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the first message is used to request the network device to page the first and second subscriber identity modules with a terminal identity or to request the network device to page the first and second subscriber identity modules with a set of paging configurations.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises:

11. A communication configuration method is applied to a terminal, the terminal comprises at least two user identity modules, and the at least two user identity modules comprise: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the method comprises:

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

14. A communication configuration method is applied to network equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps:

sending a second message, the second message indicating any one of:

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the method further comprises:

sending a third message, the third message including one or more of:

16. A terminal, comprising: at least two subscriber identity modules, the at least two subscriber identity modules comprising: a first subscriber identity module and a second subscriber identity module, wherein the terminal further comprises:

a first sending module, configured to send a first message to a network device, where the first message indicates that the first subscriber identity module and the second subscriber identity module are two subscriber identity modules of the terminal.

17. A network device, comprising:

18. A terminal comprising at least two subscriber identity modules, the at least two subscriber identity modules comprising: the terminal comprises a first user identity module and a second user identity module, and the terminal further comprises:

19. A network device, comprising:

20. A terminal, comprising: processor, memory and program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which program, when executed by the processor, carries out the steps of the communication configuration method according to any of claims 1 to 6 or the steps of the communication configuration method according to any of claims 11 to 13.

21. A network device, comprising: processor, memory and program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which program when executed by the processor implements the steps of the communication configuration method according to any of claims 7 to 10 or the steps of the communication configuration method according to any of claims 14 to 15.

22. A computer-readable storage medium, wherein a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the communication configuration method according to one of claims 1 to 15.