Patent ID: 8223689

Claim:
A method for communicating between a network and user equipment (UE), the method comprising: receiving, from a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) by the UE handed over from a current cell to a neighbor cell, a neighbor list that specifies cells or frequencies to which a dual receiver UE is permitted to listen, the neighbor list including an indicator on a first transmission frequency having no associated uplink service, wherein the neighbor list identifies particular transmission frequencies of neighbor cells as being available, wherein the neighbor cells are part of a geographic area different from a geographic area of a cell for the first transmission frequency, wherein the indicator transmitted on the first transmission frequency indicates the availability of at least one service provided on at least one neighboring transmission frequency, and wherein the at least one service is received from the MBSFN that has at least one single frequency network (SFN) area having a set of cells that all transmit the same frequency and the same content such that the set of cells appear to be a single cell from the perspective of the UE; and receiving, by the UE, the at least one neighboring transmission frequency when the indicator indicates that the availability of the at least one service is not provided on the first transmission frequency, that the at least one neighboring transmission frequency provides information regarding all available services on all frequencies, or that no frequency provides information regarding all available services on all frequencies.