Patent ID: 8521196
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for implementing Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS), wherein MBMS are born on different multimedia broadcast multicast bearer services, and each multimedia broadcast multicast bearer service corresponds to a multimedia broadcast multicast area respectively, comprising: establishing an association relationship between different multimedia broadcast multicast bearer services of MBMS of a same type at a network side, and establishing the different multimedia broadcast multicast bearer services for different multimedia broadcast multicast areas based on the association relationship; and in response to a User Equipment (UE) switching between different multimedia broadcast multicast areas, the network side providing the UE with a multimedia broadcast multicast bearer service of a multimedia broadcast multicast area where the UE is located currently, according to the association relationship between different multimedia broadcast multicast bearer service corresponding to the MBMS requested by the UE; wherein the data of MBMS of the same type differ in different broadcast multicast areas; wherein the establishing the association relationship between the different multimedia broadcast multicast bearer services of the MBMS of the same type comprises: setting in a Broadcast Multicast-Service Center BM-SC a multimedia broadcast multicast service management table, and recording a corresponding relationship among a service ID, at least one local multimedia broadcast multicast area, and at least one multimedia multicast address, wherein one local multimedia broadcast multicast area and one multicast address correspond to one multimedia broadcast multicast bearer service.