Patent ID: 7864722

Claim:
A method of providing a multicast service in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: mapping at least one logical channel onto a transport channel; and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), data of the at least one logical channel through the transport channel, wherein the data is added with a header including a first identifier for identifying the at least one logical channel and a second identifier for identifying the multicast service, wherein the second identifier is used to distinguish between MBMS services, wherein the at least one logical channel comprises a MBMS point-to-multipoint traffic channel (MTCH) and the MTCH is mapped onto at least one transport channel, wherein the at least one logical channel is located between a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer and a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer and the transport channel is located between the MAC layer and a physical (PHY) layer, wherein the MAC layer comprises a plurality of MAC sub layers, wherein each of the first identifier and the second identifier is added by a MAC-c/sh layer that processes a common or shared data, wherein the MAC-c/sh layer further performs a scheduling function or a priority handling function, wherein the first identifier is a Target Channel Type Field (TCTF) and the second identifier is a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) identifier, and wherein the MBMS identifier is identified by a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer, and the first identifier and the second identifier are only utilized when the MTCH is mapped onto at least one transport channel, and wherein the MBMS identifier is an MBMS radio network temporary identifier (m-RNTI).