Patent ID: 7773556

Claim:
A method of receiving a point-to-multipoint service in a mobile terminal, the method comprising: receiving, in the mobile terminal, control information comprising a temporal offset, the control information being received from a current cell via a current cell point-to-multipoint radio bearer information message or from a neighboring cell via a neighboring cell point-to-multipoint radio bearer information message; receiving, in the mobile terminal from the current cell, a first point-to-multipoint service transport block; calculating, in the mobile terminal, a connection frame number using the received temporal offset, wherein the temporal offset comprises one of a frame offset and a time offset; receiving, in the mobile terminal from the neighboring cell, a second point-to-multipoint service transport block using the calculated connection frame number, wherein the receiving of the second point-to-multipoint service transport block occurs while the first point-to-multipoint service transport block is received; and combining, in the mobile terminal, the first and second point-to-multipoint service transport blocks, wherein the point-to-multipoint service comprises a multimedia broadcast/multicast service.