Patent ID: 7953006
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: in response to joining at least two sessions of at least two multimedia broadcast/multicast services requested by a user equipment, creating a first context between the user equipment and network elements providing the at least two multimedia broadcast/multicast services, wherein the first context is a control plane context that supports signaling and the first context comprises, for each of the at least two multimedia broadcast/multicast services, user equipment specific information related to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service; and in response to activation of one session being requested by the user equipment, where the one session is a session of a multimedia broadcast/multicast service for which user equipment specific information of the first context is related, creating a separate, second context between the user equipment and the network element providing the session, wherein the second context is a user plane context that supports user data of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service, and wherein at least one of the first and second contexts are stored in the user equipment, and the first context comprises information related to services that the user equipment has activated and information for inactive services where no second context has been created.