Patent ID: 7623869

Claim:
A method for receiving a plurality of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) services in a mobile terminal from a network in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: establishing a point-to-multipoint radio bearer (RB) and receiving one or more MBMS services associated with the established point-to-multipoint radio bearer; receiving point-to-point radio bearer setup information from the network to establish a point-to-point radio bearer for receiving one or more MBMS services associated with the point-to-point radio bearer; prioritizing the one or more MBMS services associated with the point-to-multipoint radio bearer and the one or more MBMS services associated with the point-to-point radio bearer; determining whether the mobile terminal is able to receive all MBMS services associated with the point-to-multipoint radio bearer; terminating ongoing reception of a lower priority MBMS service associated with the point-to-multipoint radio bearer and starting to receive a highest priority MBMS service associated with the point-to-multipoint radio bearer if the mobile terminal is not able to receive all MBMS services associated with the point-to-multipoint radio bearer; and rejecting setup of the point-to-point radio bearer when the point-to-point radio bearer is being established or transmitting a request for releasing the point-to-point radio bearer when the point-to-point radio bearer already exists if the mobile terminal is not able to receive a higher priority MBMS service because reception of the point-to-point radio bearer of the lower priority MBMS service is blocking or inhibiting reception of the point-to-multipoint radio bearer of the higher priority MBMS service, wherein the mobile terminal requests the network to terminate the one or more MBMS services using an MBMS modification request message if reception of the prioritized one or more MBMS services is blocked or inhibited by the one or more MBMS services provided via the point-to-point radio bearer, and wherein the prioritized one or more MBMS services are transmitted to the network with an identifier for each MBMS service in an order arranged according to priority of each of the one or more MBMS services.