Patent ID: 9716983
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of providing service among a plurality of Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Networks (MBSFNs), wherein each MBSFN contains one or more cells, while a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system receives a broadcasting service in a serving cell of the one or more cells in one of the MBSFNs, the method comprising: storing a pointer in data to be transmitted by a base station corresponding to the serving cell in a first one of the MBSFNs, the pointer stored in a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) control channel (MCCH) of the first MBSFN and pointing to either a location of MCCH or MBMS data in a second one of the MBSFNs, or the pointer stored in a system information block of the first MBSFN and pointing to the location of the MCCH in the second MBSFN or the location of the MCCH in the first and the second MBSFNs; and transmitting the data by the base station for the first MBSFN for receipt by the UE.