Patent ID: 8010626

Claim:
A method for transporting a notification message via File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE), comprising: pre-adding a Notification type in a Content-Type attribute of a FILE element of a first file description table (FDT) to indicate that a corresponding transport object carries a notification message; and adding a notification related element in the FILE element of the first FDT to carry a notification related information; carrying a notification content in a transport object and carrying notification related information and a transport object identifier (TOI) of the transport object that carries the notification content in the first FDT; wherein the process of carrying the notification related information in the first FDT includes: setting the Content-Type attribute of the FILE element to the Notification type and carrying the notification related information in the notification related element; and sending the first FDT and the transport object that carries the notification content in a FLUTE session.