Patent ID: 9385844
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of sending data in a cellular communication system, comprising: multiplexing data for a plurality of different broadcast or multicast services and data for unicast services on radio resources available for transmission; and periodically sending, for each of a plurality of scheduling periods that each include a plurality of sub-frames, scheduling information that indicates allocations of a set of time frequency blocks to each of the plurality of different broadcast or multicast services that have data for transmission in a given scheduling period, wherein the set of time frequency blocks are selected at a Coordinating Entity configured to coordinate one or more of (A) non-synchronized single-cell transmission for one or more of the plurality of different broadcast or multicast services in at least one of a plurality of cells and (B) synchronous multi-cell transmission of one or more other of the plurality of different broadcast or multicast services at the plurality of cells, so as to maintain a set of radio resources unassigned to any broadcast or multicast service in each of the plurality of cells to permit scheduling of cell-specific unicast services in the given scheduling period within the set of radio resources in any of the plurality of cells, and wherein each allocated set of time frequency blocks in the given scheduling period is different from each other allocated set of time frequency blocks in the given scheduling period.