Patent ID: 8346256

Claim:
A method of provisioning multicast services, comprising: forming a plurality of multicast groups, each of the plurality of multicast groups associated with one of a plurality of different first channel quality ranges and one of a plurality of different multicast service levels; forming a plurality of sub-groups for each of the plurality of multicast groups, each of the plurality of sub-groups associated with one of a plurality of different second channel quality ranges; assigning a set of reporting parameters for each of the plurality of sub-groups for each multicast group, the set of reporting parameters including at least one of a channel quality indicator (CQI) reporting interval, a CQI power offset, an acknowledgement (ACK) power offset and a non-ACK (NACK) power offset; receiving a request for a multicast service from a mobile unit; receiving an indicator indicating a channel quality of the mobile unit; assigning the mobile unit to one of the plurality of multicast groups according to the channel quality range among the plurality of different first channel quality ranges within which the indicated channel quality is located; assigning the mobile unit to one of the plurality of sub-groups associated with the assigned multicast group according to the channel quality range among the plurality of different second channel quality ranges within which the indicated channel quality is located; and transmitting the set of reporting parameters corresponding to the assigned sub-group to the mobile unit.