Patent ID: 7054643

Claim:
A wireless terminal that supports a multicast service over a wireless channel in a wireless communications system, the wireless terminal comprising: a wireless interface; a user interface module; a memory; a processor that connects to the wireless interface in order to communicate over the wireless channel, connects to the user interface module for receiving input from a user of the wireless terminal, and connects to the memory, the processor configured to perform the steps of: (a) sending a request that the wireless terminal wishes to join to at least one requested layer corresponding to a multicast group of the multicast service; (b) sending bandwidth requirements for the at least one requested layer in response to step (a); (c) displaying a list of multicast services and receiving from the user a first selection from the list of multicast services; (d) receiving from the user a second selection for a desired level of multicast service for the selected multicast service and displaying the desired level of multicast service, wherein the desired level of multicast service corresponds to a first multicast group address; and (e) displaying an actual level of multicast service, wherein the actual level corresponds to information about a number of layers that is currently supported over a wireless channel.