Patent ID: 9319851
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: establishing a unicast Evolved Packet Service (EPS) bearer by a user equipment (UE) in a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network for receiving downlink (DL) unicast traffic of DL group communication, wherein the UE belongs to a communication group having a group identity (ID); receiving access information from the network for monitoring a multicast Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) bearer to receive DL multicast traffic of the DL group communication, wherein the UE receives the DL multicast traffic by monitoring a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) scrambled by a group radio identifier (g-RNTI); and de-multiplexing DL traffic received either from the multicast MBMS bearer or from the unicast EPS bearer and extracting the DL group communication into a group communication application associated with the group ID.