Patent ID: 8730860

Claim:
A method of roaming for a user accessing a multicast/broadcast service between operational domains with a home operational domain providing a multicast/broadcast service to the user, wherein access to the multicast/broadcast service is performed by means of a first parameter set and with a visited operational domain being visited by the user and with a multicast/broadcast server being responsible for the user and performing following steps: the multicast/broadcast server receives a request including a list of multicast/broadcast services of interest to the user, triggered by the user being in the visited operational domain, for providing at least one multicast/broadcast service in the visited operational domain, the multicast/broadcast server determines a matching provision method for providing the at least one multicast/broadcast service to the user in the visited operational domain considering the first parameter set and rules provided by the visited operational domain for a provision of multicast/broadcast services in the visited operational domain and the request triggered by the user, the multicast/broadcast server determines a second parameter set based the request triggered by the user and the rules provided by the visited operational domain for the provision of the multicast/broadcast services for accessing the at least one multicast/broadcast service in the visited operational domain according to the provision method, and the multicast/broadcast server informs the user about the second parameter set.