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

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
preparing for a handover of the multicast traffic for a UE of the plurality of UEs by forwarding multicast distribution information to a target network device via either directly or indirectly via a management function, wherein the multicast distribution information comprises a tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID), a multicast distribution address, and a multicast source address;
receiving, directly or indirectly, a UE radio bearer configuration from the target network device, wherein the UE radio bearer configuration comprises individual data radio bearers (DRBs) or a second shared MRB;
forwarding the UE radio bearer configuration to the UE; and
leaving the source of the multicast traffic if none of the plurality of UEs is still receiving multicast data from the source of the multicast traffic via the network device.