Patent ID: 7016327

Claim:
A method of receiving content on a broadcast channel by a subscriber station, the method comprising: receiving a first set of frames of a first transmit buffer transmitted on the broadcast channel from a first cell, wherein the first set of frames contains a first portion of the content, and each frame of the first set of frames has been inner coded and outer coded; performing a handoff from the first cell to a second cell; receiving a second set of frames of a second transmit buffer transmitted on the broadcast channel from the second cell, wherein the second set of frames contain a second portion of the content, and each frame of the second set of frames has been inner coded and outer coded in the same manner as the first set of frames; receiving an indication of the time-alignment of the first set of frames and the second set of frames; and determining duplicated frames of the received first set of frames and the received second set of frames according to the indication of the time-alignment of the first set of frames and the second set of frames.