Patent ID: 7003292

Claim:
A method for point-to-multipoint communication on a communications network, comprising reserving, at a radio access network downlink, radio resources for a first downlink packet stream of a first mobile recipient, the packet stream being associated with group communication, receiving a second downlink packet stream addressed to a second mobile recipient located in the same radio cell as said first downlink packet stream mobile recipient, checking whether the second downlink packet stream is associated with group communication, and, if the second downlink packet stream is associated with group communication, checking whether the second downlink packet stream is associated with the same group communication as the first downlink packet stream, and if the second downlink packet stream is not associated with the same group communication as the first downlink packet stream, allocating new radio resources for said first downlink stream, and if the second downlink packet stream is associated with the same group communication, allocating no new radio resources for the second downlink packet stream and instructing said second mobile recipient to receive said second downlink packet stream over said first downlink.