Patent ID: 8879459

Claim:
A method for sending a counting response by a User Equipment (UE) in a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), comprising: setting a triggering condition for a feedback of the UE; sending, by the UE, a counting response to a network according to the triggering condition; and counting UEs, by the network according to counting responses from UEs, and enabling or disabling, by the network, a Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) transmission according to the counting result, wherein the triggering condition comprises: a feedback request indication sent by the network, wherein the enabling the MBSFN transmission comprises transmitting the MBMS in a manner of an MBSFN in an MBSFN area, wherein the disabling the MBSFN transmission comprises stopping transmitting the MBMS in the manner of the MBSFN in the MBSFN area.