Patent ID: 11863970
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A base station for a mobile telecommunications system in which includes at least one service dedicated cell that does not support at least one service, the base station comprising circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
transmit information in a master information block for a cell indicating that the cell is a service dedicated cell to the at least one user equipment; and transmit system information including a predefined bitmap having an associated bit at a predefined position indicating at least one predefined service provided by the service dedicated cell to the at least one user equipment, wherein the predefined bitmap includes multiple predefined bits, wherein each predefined bit indicates a unique associated predefined service supported by the cell or a unique associated predefined group of services supported by the cell such that information regarding each predefined service or group of services is in the predefined position in the predefined bitmap;
wherein the predefined bitmap includes multiple predefined bits at associated positions that together indicated all services supported by the cell.