Patent ID: 8160047

Claim:
A method for transmitting service, comprising: selecting a plurality of radio frames in one time unit as specific radio frames, wherein the time unit comprises 2 M successive radio frames, where M is a nonnegative integer, and wherein each of the radio frames contains R subframes that can be allocated to a specific service, where R is a natural number; selecting subframes in the specific radio frames as specific frames for sending the specific service, wherein the specific service is a multimedia broadcast multicast service, or a unicast service, or one or more than one kind of service transmitted in broadcast or multicast mode; sending position information of the specific radio frames on any one of a main broadcast channel, a secondary broadcast channel or a dynamic broadcast channel; sending position information of the specific subframes on any one of the main broadcast channel, the secondary broadcast channel or the dynamic broadcast channel; wherein the position information of the specific radio frames is an interval of the specific radio frames in the time unit, wherein the interval of the specific radio frames in the time unit is 2 m , 0≦m≦M+1; and wherein the position information of the specific radio frames and the position information of the specific subframes are sent by sending a value of a joint signaling A, and an expression of the joint signaling A is one of the following forms: if ⁢ ⁢ 0 ≤ m ≤ M , 0 ≤ N ⁢ ⁢ p ≤ R , and ⁢ ⁢ R ≤ M + 1 , then A = { 0 , when ⁢ ⁢ N ⁢ ⁢ p = 0 ( M + 1 ) ⁢ ( N ⁢ ⁢ p - 1 ) + ( m + 1 ) , when ⁢ ⁢ 0 < N ⁢ ⁢ p ≤ R ; ⁢ ⁢ if ⁢ ⁢ 0 ≤ m ≤ M , 0 ≤ N ⁢ ⁢ p ≤ R , and ⁢ ⁢ M + 1 ≤ R , then ⁢ ⁢ A = { 0 , when ⁢ ⁢ N ⁢ ⁢ p = 0 Rm + N ⁢ ⁢ p , when ⁢ ⁢ 0 < N ⁢ ⁢ p ≤ R ; wherein a number or an interval of the specific subframes in each of the specific radio frames is Np; and when Np=0, the value of the joint signaling A is 0, which represents that the time unit has no specific subframe.