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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2022
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke, GB;
Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke, GB;
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke, GB;
Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke, GB;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method including transmitting, by infrastructure equipment of a wireless network, to one or more communications devices an indication that a multicast service can be received on communications resources of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network. The indication includes an indication that the communications resources can be received either according to a first mode of operation in which the communications resources of the multicast service form part of a bandwidth part dedicated for the multicast service with a second bandwidth part dedicated for unicast transmission to or reception from a communications device, or according to a second mode of operation in which the communications resources of the multicast service form part of a bandwidth part which includes communications resources for unicast transmission to or reception from a communications device.