Patent ID: 8238895

Claim:
In a wireless communications network comprising a base station subsystem configured to control at least one network cell and in which the base station subsystem is configured to communicate with mobile stations in the cell through radio blocks, a method of distributing information contents received in data packets at the base station subsystem to the mobile stations, comprising: obtaining, from the data packets, radio blocks to be transmitted through the network cell; labeling said radio blocks with a first radio link identifier for identifying a logic connection between a mobile station and the base station subsystem, the first radio link identifier associated with a multicast service; communicating the first radio link identifier to a first mobile station in the network cell; and communicating the first radio link identifier to at least one second mobile station in the network cell if the at least one second mobile station requests the information contents, wherein each of the first mobile station and the at least one second mobile station is assigned a unique second radio link identifier to be included in said radio blocks, wherein each of the second radio link identifiers is indicative of a subscription of the first mobile station and the at least one second mobile station to the multicast service corresponding to the first radio link identifier.