Patent ID: 7620061
Filing Date: 2009-11-17
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of transmitting point-to-multipoint service multimedia data in a wireless communications system, the method comprising: determining scheduling information for each of a plurality of point-to-multipoint multimedia services, wherein the scheduling information for each point-to-multipoint multimedia service designates transmission start information and transmission duration information that indicates the number of consecutively transmitted frames which contain the multimedia data of the corresponding point-to-multipoint multimedia service; transmitting the scheduling information for each of the plurality of point-to-multipoint multimedia services to a corresponding group of mobile terminals, respectively, wherein the scheduling information associated with each point-to-multipoint multimedia service is independent of the scheduling information associated with each of the other point-to-multipoint multimedia services; and transmitting the multimedia data for each of the plurality of point-to-multipoint multimedia services in accordance with the independent, corresponding scheduling information such that a mobile terminal associated with the plurality of point-to-multipoint multimedia services is capable of using the scheduling information to determine a time interval between receiving multimedia data associated with one of the point-to-multipoint services and a next one of the point-to-multipoint services in order to operating in Discontinuous Receive Mode.