Patent ID: 8213348

Claim:
A method for implementing time division multiplexing of multimedia broadcast multicast services from a network side to user equipments, comprising: determining, by said network side, if broadcast multicast services adopt a bearer type of point-to-multipoint, and channel resource is shared by time division multiplexing to transmit the services; when the multimedia broadcast multicast services adopt a bearer type of point-to-multipoint, and channel resource is shared by time division multiplexing to transmit the services, said network side informing said user equipments of configuration information of the multimedia broadcast multicast services, and sending said multimedia broadcast multicast services on the channel resource satisfying said configuration information, the configuration information comprising information of a time division multiplexing repetition period, and information of a position and amount of channel resource occupied by multimedia broadcast multicast services transmission in a time division multiplexing period; after receiving said configuration information, said user equipments receiving said multimedia broadcast multicast services on indicated channel resource corresponding to said amount of channel resource.