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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2021
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Pascal Adjakple, Great Neck, NY (US);
Rocco Di Girolamo, Laval, CA;
Kyle Pan, Saint James, NY (US);
Zhuo Chen, Claymont, DE (US);
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Methods are described for enabling 5G MBS operation. The disclosed methods overcome limitations in LTE and UTRAN MBMS operation, address the unique characteristic of 5G NR, and meet requirements of 5G MBS use cases. Disclosed are techniques for MCCH configuration procedures, including change notification procedures; triggers for MCCH acquisition; a RAN paging procedure for triggering counting for UEs in RRC INACTIVE; triggers for an MBS interest indication based on BWP switching; a timescale for scheduling of an MRB transport channel, a signal control channel, and a traffic channel; procedures for scheduling MCCH, including a scheduling configuration, an SCS, and a BWP; procedures for scheduling (P)TrCH; and procedures for scheduling MTCH.