Patent ID: 8130687

Claim:
A method for determining a type of communication for a service, comprising: determining, by a number of cells using a first counting method, the number of cells that contain at least one user equipment interested in the service; when the number of cells that contain at least one user equipment interested in the service is above a first threshold, transmitting the service via point-to-multipoint communication; and when the number of cells that contain at least one user equipment interested in the service is below the first threshold, using a second counting method to count the number of user equipment interested in the service in each of the cells that contain at least one user equipment interested in the service, based on the second counting method, when the number of user equipment interested in the service in one of the cells that contain at least one user equipment interested in the service is below a second threshold, transmitting the service in the one of the cells via point-to-point communication, and when the number of user equipment interested in the service in one of the cells that contain at least one user equipment interested in the service is above the second threshold, transmitting the service in the one of the cells via point-to-multipoint communication, and when the number of cells that contain at least one user equipment interested in the service is above the first threshold, transmitting the service via point-to-multipoint communication only by the cells that contain at least one user equipment interested in the service.