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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;
Ralf Rossbach, Munich, DE;
Haijing Hu, Beijing, CN;
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yuqin Chen, Shenzhen, CN;
Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sarma V. Vangala, Campbell, CA (US);
Srinivasan Nimmala, San Jose, CA (US);
Murtaza A. Shikari, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srirang A. Lovlekar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, San Diego, CA (US);
Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Nuremberg, DE;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure relates to techniques for providing broadcast and multicast services to wireless devices while in Idle and Inactive modes a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station of a cellular network. The wireless device may receive information indicating whether provision of a broadcast or multicast service in one or more of an inactive mode or an idle mode is supported by the cellular network. The wireless device may receive the broadcast or multicast service in one or more of the inactive mode or the idle mode based at least in part on the information indicating whether provision of the broadcast or multicast service in one or more of the inactive mode or the idle mode is supported by the cellular network.