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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2004
Sung Uk Moon, Yokosuka, JP;
Minami Ishii, Yokohama, JP;
Takehiro Nakamura, Yokosuka, JP;
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of this invention to select an information receiving method at a mobile station (MS) so as to avoid an increase in the transmission power of a base transceiver station (BTS) or redundancy or loss of received information at the mobile station (MS) in broadcast communication or multicast communication. A mobile station according to this invention includes a receiving method selection information acquiring unit () for acquiring receiving method selection information for receiving the same information transmitted via a plurality of cells, and a determining unit () for determining whether to perform soft combining or selective combining on the same information based on the receiving method selection information.