Patent ID: 9609534
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for sending indication information, comprising: user equipment (UE) determining that the UE has left one or more multimedia broadcast multicast service over a single frequency network (MBSFN) areas which can carry a specified multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS), wherein the specified MBMS is an MBMS which the UE was receiving or was prepared to receive before the UE left the one or more MBSFN areas; the UE sending indication information to a network side; after the UE performs cell reselection and resides in a target cell, in the case that the UE determines that one or more MBSFN areas to which the target cell belongs are different from one or more MBSFN areas to which the source cell belongs, the UE acquiring a condition of one or more MBMSs which are carried in the one or more MBSFN areas to which the target cell belongs; and the UE continuing receiving the specified MBMS in the target cell according to the acquired MBMS condition; wherein when the MBMS condition is that the specified MBMS is not carried in any of the one or more MBSFN areas to which the target cell belongs, the UE reuses the configuration parameters provided by the source cell to continue to receive the specified MBMS; when the MBMS condition is that the specified MBMS is carried in part of the MBSFN areas to which the target cell belongs, the UE selecting one or more MBSFN areas from the part of the MBSFN areas according to a predetermined strategy to continue receiving the specified MBMS.