Patent ID: 8750191

Claim:
A method for a communication device comprising: receiving, by the communication device, control information indicating that a base station is capable of providing point-to-multipoint data; and determining, by the communication device, that the base station is capable of providing a point-to-multipoint data service according to the control information, receiving, by the communication device, point-to-multipoint data from the base station when the base station is only capable of providing the point-to-multipoint data service and the base station is invalid, wherein the base station is invalid when the control information further indicates that the base station has been barred or reserved for a point-to-point data service, or when one of MasterInformationBlock, MIB, SystemInformation-BlockType 1 , SIB 1 , and SystemInformationBlockType 2 , SIB 2 , is absent from the control information, or when it is determined, by the communication device, that a number of the control information is less than a predetermined number of the control information; and processing, by the communication device, the point-to-multipoint data for playback.