Patent ID: 8050210

Claim:
A method for transmitting a configuration mode of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) carrier frequency time slots, comprising: obtaining the configuration mode of each time slot on a carrier frequency that carries MBMS service; wherein, the configuration mode comprises a chip combining mode in which various base stations transmitting the same MBMS service scramble the MBMS service by using respective scrambling codes, and a terminal receiving the MBMS service performs a chip-level combining on received MBMS service signals from the base stations by using a joint detection method; setting information on whether or not there is at least one time slot configured as the chip combining mode into a message that is to be transmitted to a terminal; transmitting the message to the terminal; after receiving the message, the terminal determining whether or not there is at least one time slot configured as the chip combining mode; if it is determined that there is at least one time slot configured as the chip combining mode, determining, by the terminal, whether or not the terminal has a function of the chip-level combining; and if it is determined that the terminal has the function, reading by the terminal information of neighboring cells to perform the chip-level combining on received MBMS signals from base stations in the neighboring cells by using the joint detection method.