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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2020
Applicant:
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Inventor:
Horst Thomas Belling, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 20/71 (2008.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/40 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 76/40 (2018.02);
Abstract
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for joining a multicast session of a communications network. In this regard, a control plane (CP) join request for a multicast service is received from user equipment. Furthermore, provision of a reject message associated with the CP join request to the user equipment is caused in response to a determination that a multicast distribution session is not available for a multicast address associated with the CP join request.