Patent ID: 7519384
Filing Date: 2009-04-14
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: monitoring, by a wireless terminal, a multimedia broadcast/multicast service session in a current cell in which the multimedia broadcast/multicast service session is active, wherein the wireless terminal is receiving the multimedia broadcast/multicast service session in the current cell and prior to a reselection of the wireless terminal within a network from the current cell to a target cell in which the multimedia broadcast/multicast service session is not currently active; transmitting, via the current cell, a target cell identification and a multimedia broadcast/multicast service identification in a message from the wireless terminal to the network; and in response to receiving multimedia broadcast/multicast service target cell information from the network via the current cell, reselecting the wireless terminal to the target cell and continuing wireless terminal reception of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service session in the target cell.