Patent ID: 8693330

Claim:
A multipoint delivery entity for receiving multipoint transmissions from an upstream entity and delivering said multipoint transmissions downstream to multipoint receivers as multimedia broadcast multicast service transmissions, said entity comprising: a conflict detector for detecting a presence of a delivery conflict with respect to scheduling among said multipoint transmissions downstream of said multipoint delivery entity; and a conflict resolver for performing a conflict resolution procedure in the event of a delivery conflict being detected; wherein the conflict resolution procedure comprising: modifying a delivery scheduling of at least one of the multipoint transmissions with respect to a receipt scheduling of the at least one multipoint transmissions to generate a modified delivery schedule; delivering at least one of the multipoint transmissions in accordance with the modified delivery schedule; and providing, to the multipoint receivers in a target area, suspend information regarding which of the multipoint transmissions to the multipoint receivers in the target area will be interrupted or suspended.