METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SWITCHING ACCESS POINT

• Main Authors: TSENG, Mitch, YIN, Jiaxin, ZHANG, Yongjing, WANG, Sichen
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 27.03.2019
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

The present invention relates to the field of information technologies, and discloses an access point switching method and apparatus, to avoid interruption of another communication service that needs to be performed with an AE by using an M2M platform, thereby improving user experience. The method includes: receiving, by an M2M platform, an access point switching request message sent by an AE, where the access point switching request message carries a CSE identifier of an M2M gateway and access information of the AE; sending, by the M2M platform, a resource creation request message to the M2M gateway, where the resource creation request message is used to request the M2M gateway to create a connection resource of the AE, and the resource creation request message carries an identifier of the AE and the access information of the AE; receiving, by the M2M platform, a response message indicating that resource creation succeeds that is sent by the M2M gateway, where the response message indicating that resource creation succeeds carries a connection address of the M2M gateway; and sending, by the M2M platform, an access point switching response message to the AE. According to the present invention, after an access point for the AE is switched from the M2M platform to the M2M gateway, the AE can receive communication services corresponding to the M2M platform and the M2M gateway.