Patent ID: 8032147

Claim:
A method of communicating with a network in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by a terminal, a service identifier for identifying a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) service provided by a network; receiving, by the terminal, a parameter from the network for indicating a state of the MBMS service, wherein the state is one of a point-to-multipoint state, a point-to-point state and a no-transmission state; requesting, by the terminal, transmission of data of the MBMS service from the network if the service identifier identifies the MBMS service and the parameter indicates the no-transmission state; and receiving, by the terminal, the data of the MBMS service if the parameter indicates the point-to-multipoint state; wherein the service identifier and the parameter are received through a MBMS control channel (MCCH) or a broadcast control channel (BCCH), wherein requesting transmission of the data of the MBMS service, by the terminal, comprises transmitting a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection request message to the network, and wherein the method is performed when the terminal is in phase 3, which starts after initial MBMS radio bearer set-up and ends when the network receives a MBMS session stop indication from a core network.