Patent ID: 9008661
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of providing service among a plurality of Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Networks (MBSFNs) for a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving data by the UE from a base station that is included in a first one of the MBSFNs; determining by the UE whether the received data includes a pointer to a second one of the MBSFNs, the pointer stored in a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) control channel (MCCH) of the first one of the MBSFNs and pointing to either a location of MCCH or MBMS data in the second one of the MBSFNs or the pointer stored in a system information block of the first one of the MBSFNs and pointing to the location of the MCCH in the second one of the MBSFNs or the location of the MCCH in the first one and the second one of the MBSBNs; and sending by the UE a service join request to the second one of the MBSFNs for continuing a MBMS being received from the first one of the MBSFNs based on the pointer.