Patent ID: 9516477
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for delivering multimedia content to at least one user equipment (UE) using multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) in a wireless cellular network, the method comprising: initiating a MBMS session for delivering the multimedia content cached at a local cache server of at least one wireless cellular network node, by at least one cached content manager; defining new control interfaces for communicating between the at least one cached content manager and at least one of: a multi-cell multicast coordination entity (MCE) and a MBMS gateway (MBMS GW); sending a notification on a new control interface to the MCE for establishing the MBMS session; and signaling at least one radio access network (RAN) node to deliver the multimedia content using the established MBMS session by the MCE.