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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
Applicant:
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Thorsten Lohmar, Aachen, DE;
Hongxia Long, Shanghai, CN;
Michael John Slssingar, Waterlooville, GB;
Jinyang Xie, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 76/40 (2018.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/20 (2009.01); H04W 28/24 (2009.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04W 28/0268 (2013.01); H04W 28/20 (2013.01); H04W 28/24 (2013.01); H04W 72/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/40 (2018.02);
Abstract
The invention relates to a BMSC in an MBMS system with improved unicast/broadcast switching comprising a broadcast decision, counting and aggregation functions taking into account resources available for broadcasting, importance and priority of content, QoS requirements for content as well as trends in consuming of content. The invention further relates to a BMSC server and software products implementation as well as a watchdog implementation providing the improvements.