Patent ID: 7616611
Filing Date: 2009-11-10
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for paging a User Equipment (UE) by a radio access network in order to provide both a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) and a non-MBMS to the UE in a mobile communication system including at least one UE and the radio access network, the method comprising: transmitting a first channel information about a common paging indication channel and a second channel information about a common control channel to at least one UE in advance; transmitting the common paging indication channel in response to an MBMS paging request of the UE; transmitting paging information of the MBMS through the common control channel in response to transmission of the common paging indication channel; and transmitting separate channel information on the common paging indication channel for identifying existence of paging for the non-MBMS and the common control channel for transmitting paging information of the non-MBMS, respectively, wherein the common paging indication channel identifies existence of a group paging for the MBMS and the common control channel transmits paging information of the identified MBMS.