Patent ID: 11943789
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A base station configured to support one or more multicast and broadcast services in a network, the base station comprising:
a transceiver; and
a controller, wherein the controller is configured to:
control the transceiver to transmit, to a mobile communication device, system information related to the one or more multicast and broadcast services;
control the transceiver to receive, from the mobile communication device, in a case including upon radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment with the network, an RRC message comprising interest information indicating at least one service of the one or more multicast and broadcast services, identified by the system information, which the mobile communication device is interested in receiving; and
control the transceiver to transmit, based on the interest information, to the mobile communication device, an RRC Reconfiguration message to allow the mobile communication device to receive the at least one service which the mobile communication device is interested in receiving.