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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2005
Ragulan Sinnarajah, San Diego, CA (US);
Jun Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Nikolai K. N. Leung, Takoma Park, MD (US);
Tao Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Ragulan Sinnarajah, San Diego, CA (US);
Jun Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Nikolai K. N. Leung, Takoma Park, MD (US);
Tao Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and a system for multicast service notification in cellular telephone system to enable the cellular telephone systems to provide both multicast and point-to-point services are disclosed. Several embodiments describe the signaling interaction between an access network and subscriber stations belonging to a multicast group to allow the access network to properly notify the subscriber stations of a the multicast service. Such a signaling further allows the subscriber stations to recognize the multicast service notification to participate in the multicast service.