Patent ID: 9398425
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method for group communications over evolved multimedia broadcast/multicast services (E-MBMS) comprising: identifying a schedule for an indicator on a broadcast/multicast medium of a first multicast media on a multicast flow, wherein the indicator is configured to identify a location of data on the broadcast/multicast medium and to identify a presence of the data on the multicast flow; binding application layer paging, an application layer wake up mechanism, or a power saving mechanism to the schedule for the indicator on the multicast flow; waking from a sleep mode to monitor the indicator to determine availability of the first multicast media based on the indicator, while maintaining an application layer sleep cycle; notifying the application layer and tuning to the first multicast media if the first multicast media is available; and returning to the sleep mode without notifying the application layer to maintain the application layer sleep cycle if the first multicast media is not available.