Patent ID: 7609711

Claim:
A method for communicating program rejection information in a broadcast-multicast mobile communication system, the method comprising: a mobile station receiving information related to at least one broadcast-multicast service from a base station; the mobile station determining to receive one or more specific broadcast-multicast services based on the received information; the mobile station requesting the one or more specific broadcast-multicast services determined to be received from the base station; and the mobile station receiving a broadcast reject message for indicating rejection of at least one of the one or more specific broadcast-multicast services requested; wherein the broadcast reject message comprises a same reject reason indicator field for indicating whether a reason for rejecting the at least one of the one or more specific broadcast-multicast services requested is identical to a reason for rejecting a previous broadcast-multicast service in the broadcast reject message, wherein the reason for rejecting the at least one of the one or more specific broadcast-multicast services requested is identical to a reason for rejecting a previous broadcast-multicast service in the broadcast reject message if a value stored in the same reject reason indicator field is 1, wherein the reason for rejecting the at least one of the one or more specific broadcast-multicast services requested is not identical to a reason for rejecting a previous broadcast-multicast service in the broadcast reject message if a value stored in the same reject reason indicator field is 0.