Patent ID: 9414358
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for supporting cross carrier indication of a control channel change notification for at least one wireless communication unit operating on a first serving communication cell, the at least one wireless communication unit configured with access to a plurality of second serving communication cells in a wireless broadcast communication system, the method comprising: generating, at a base station of the wireless broadcast communication system, a message comprising a broadcast service identifier, the broadcast service identifier identifying an upcoming control channel change of a particular second serving communication cell of the plurality of second serving communication cells accessible by the at least one wireless communication unit, the broadcast service identifier being unique to the particular second serving communication cell and the broadcast service identifier being different from a first broadcast service identifier associated with the first serving communication cell and each of a plurality of broadcast service identifiers corresponding to the remaining second serving communication cells of the plurality of second serving communication cells; and transmitting the message to the at least one wireless communication unit, wherein the wireless broadcast communication system supports a long term evolved (LTE) multicast broadcast multimedia service (MBMS), each the plurality of broadcast service identifiers is mapped to a corresponding second serving communication cell of the plurality of second serving communication cells according to higher layers of an LTE protocol stack, and the plurality of second serving communication cells are separately ordered for each wireless communication unit of the at least one wireless communication unit.