Patent ID: 9578473
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for selecting a subscription to receive cell broadcast service (CBS) messages for a multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) mobile communication device, the method comprising: camping on a first communication network with a first subscription; camping on a second communication network with a second subscription; determining whether system information blocks (SIBs) received on the first subscription and the second subscription contain information elements including one or more parameters that define a broadcast multicast control (BMC) scheduling message (SM) period; in response to determining that the SIBs received on at least one of the first subscription and the second subscription contain the information elements including the one or more parameters defining the BMC SM period, selecting the one of the first subscription and the second subscription associated with the SIBs containing the information elements to receive the CBS messages: determining whether one of the first subscription and the second subscription have a same BMC SM period; and in response to determining that one of the first subscription and the second subscription has a longer BMC SM period, selecting the one of the first subscription and the second subscription associated with the SIBs having the longer BMC SM period to receive the CBS messages.