Patent ID: 7924865

Claim:
A method for communicating program rejection information in a broadcast-multicast mobile communication system, the method comprising: requesting one or more specific broadcast-multicast services determined to be received from a base station; and 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 broadcast-multicast service format indicator field of 1 bit length for indicating whether the one or more specific broadcast-multicast services is represented by one kind of service identifier or a combination of two different kinds of service identifiers, wherein the one or more specific broadcast-multicast services is represented by the one kind of service identifier if a value stored in the broadcast-multicast service format indicator field is 0, wherein the one or more specific broadcast-multicast services is represented by the combination of two different kinds of service identifiers if the value stored in the broadcast-multicast service format indicator field is 1, 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 not identical to a reason for rejecting the previous broadcast-multicast service in the broadcast reject message if a value stored in the same reject reason indicator field is 0, wherein the reason for rejecting the at least one of the one or more specific broadcast-multicast services requested is identical to the reason for rejecting the previous broadcast-multicast service in the broadcast reject message if the value stored in the same reject reason indicator field is 1.