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

Claim 15:
16. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
at least one processor, memory in electronic communication with the at least one processor; and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to:
receive multicast traffic at a network device for delivery to a plurality of user equipments (UEs);
determine, at the network device, whether to deliver the multicast traffic to the plurality of UEs via unicast delivery, via multicast delivery, or combinations thereof;
generate a multicast radio network temporary identifier (M-RNTI) that identifies a source of the multicast traffic;
transmit a signal to each UE within at least a subset of the plurality of UEs that provides each UE within the subset of the plurality of UEs with a tuple based at least in part on the M-RNTI; and
transmit the multicast traffic to the plurality of UEs based at least in part on the determining, wherein, to transmit the multicast traffic to the plurality of UEs, the instructions are executable by the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to:
transmit the multicast traffic to each UE within at least the subset of the plurality of UEs via a shared multicast radio bearer (MRB), the shared MRB identified by the M-RNTI associated with the source of the multicast traffic.