Patent ID: 9413543
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for transmitting a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), wherein the method comprises: sending, by a first base station, a service identifier of a first MBMS that is to be received by a user equipment in a coverage area of the first base station, the service identifier being sent to a gateway; and receiving, by the first base station, a data packet of the MBMS that is to be received by the user equipment and a synchronization control packet on a first multicast channel, the data packet and the synchronization control packet being sent by the gateway, wherein the first multicast channel is a multicast channel where the MBMS that needs to be received by the user equipment is located; performing a segmentation concatenation process that generates one or more data blocks carrying data from the data packet of the MBMS that needs to be received by the user equipment according to the synchronization control packet and further carrying an empty transmission position corresponding to at least one other MBMS according to the synchronization control packet and that is to be received by a user equipment outside of a coverage area of the first base station; and transmitting MBMS data to the user equipment by the first base station, the transmitting the MBMS data including transmitting the one or more data blocks in first subframes associated with the MBMS that needs to be received by the user equipment, and further including keeping silent in subframes other than the first subframes associated with the MBMS that needs to be received by the user equipment, wherein the at least one other MBMS is an MBMS service, other than the MBMS that needs to be received by the user equipment, which is mapped onto the first multicast channel.