Patent ID: 8660046
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A data communications method executed in a communications system, comprising: transmitting broadcast data and individual communications data, by a base station that alters a frequency bandwidth over which the broadcast data for providing a point-to-multipoint broadcasting communications service is transmitted and over which the individual communications data for providing a point-to-point individual communications service is transmitted; receiving at least the broadcast data by a mobile terminal that alters a frequency band over which the broadcast data and the individual communications data transmitted from said base station is received; and performing decision processing of making a decision as to whether said mobile terminal can receive reception-desired content it desires to receive among contents provided by the point-to-multipoint broadcasting communications service, the decision processing being performed in accordance with a frequency bandwidth and a center frequency of said frequency bandwidth, which are both used for transmitting the reception-desired content.