Patent ID: 8295818

Claim:
A method performed on a radio network controller, the method comprising: multicasting information from a radio network controller in a radio access network to radio nodes in the radio access network, the information comprising: content flows received by the radio network controller from a content server, the content flows being for broadcast by the radio nodes to mobile access terminals; and an overhead message configured to be transmitted in one or more sectors of the radio nodes, the overhead message being further configured to enable one or more mobile access terminals to access the content flows, the overhead message being configured using neighboring sector information from neighboring sectors of the radio access network to determine which content flows may be available to the mobile access terminals communicating with particular radio nodes of the radio nodes; wherein the multicasting comprises: distributing the content flows to the radio nodes using multicast network addresses corresponding to the content flows; and managing distribution of the content flows to the radio nodes using a broadcast logical channel management function to allocate the content flows to broadcast logical channels; and instructing one or more of the radio nodes to modify a list of soft-combinable sectors for one or more of the content flows.