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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2023
Applicant:

Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Horst Thomas Belling, Erding, DE;

Philippe Godin, Versailles, FR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/30 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/30 (2023.01);
Abstract

There is provided an apparatus comprising means for performing: determining a presence of at least one user equipment that is participating in a multicast session while in an inactive state; determining an area where handling of the multicast session for the at least one user equipment in inactive state is required; determining one or more nodes handling cells within at least a part of the determined area for handling the multicast session; in response to the determining a presence of at least one user equipment in inactive state, sending to each determined node a request to handle the multicast session for the at least one user equipment in inactive state.


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