Patent ID: 11870599
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving, at the UE and from a network device, a signal indicating whether a data radio bearer (DRB) or a multicast radio bearer (MRB) is to be used to receive multicast traffic at the UE, wherein receiving the signal comprises receiving a tuple based at least in part on a multicast radio network temporary identifier (M-RNTI) that identifies a source of the multicast traffic;
associating the MRB with the M-RNTI in order to facilitate reception of the multicast traffic using the MRB; and
receiving multicast traffic at the UE using the MRB based at least in part on the received signal, the MRB identified by at least the M-RNTI associated with the source of the multicast traffic.