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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. 03, 2009

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2002
Applicants:

Mark Beckmann, Braunschweig, DE;

Michael Eckert, Braunschweig, DE;

Christina Gessner, München, DE;

Thomas Gottschalk, Berlin, DE;

Martin Hans, Hildesheim, DE;

Norbert Kroth, Potsdam, DE;

Dirk Langefeld, Langenfeld, DE;

Andreas Otte, Celle, DE;

Norbert Schwagmann, Braunschweig, DE;

Inventors:

Mark Beckmann, Braunschweig, DE;

Michael Eckert, Braunschweig, DE;

Christina Gessner, München, DE;

Thomas Gottschalk, Berlin, DE;

Martin Hans, Hildesheim, DE;

Norbert Kroth, Potsdam, DE;

Dirk Langefeld, Langenfeld, DE;

Andreas Otte, Celle, DE;

Norbert Schwagmann, Braunschweig, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method is provided for the administration of a muticast service whereby mobile terminals of users who have subscribed to the multicast service receive multicast messages via a mobile communication network. The present invention seeks to use the available radio resources in a more economical manner. To this end, the mobile terminals are respectively prodied with an input unit which, when actuated, produces activation information which indicates whether the multicast service is activated or deactivated, and the activation information is transmitted to the mobile communication network.


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