Patent ID: 7315509

Claim:
A method for enabling a user equipment (UE) to recover from a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) data error in a mobile communication system, the mobile communication system including a radio network controller (RNC) and at least one cell for transmitting MBMS data to at least one UE according to a control operation of the RNC, the RNC transmitting first control information to UEs located in each cell, each of the UEs receiving the first control information and the MBMS data, the method comprising the steps of: (a) notifying the RNC that an MBMS data reception error has occurred when the error in the received MBMS data is detected; (b) receiving response information associated with the MBMS data reception error from the RNC; (c) determining whether control information contained in the response information matches the first control information; and (d) recovering from the MBMS data reception error according to a result of the determination.