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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2008
Bongyong Song, San Diego, CA (US);
Rashid Ahmed Attar, San Diego, CA (US);
Mehmet Gurelli, San Diego, CA (US);
Bongyong Song, San Diego, CA (US);
Rashid Ahmed Attar, San Diego, CA (US);
Mehmet Gurelli, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of mobility management within a wireless communications network including a plurality of sectors are disclosed. In an example, the wireless communications network includes a first cluster of sectors with at least one target sector and at least one supporting sector. The multicast communication session is carried within both the target and supporting sectors. In another example, a second cluster can be included within the network for supporting the same multicast communication session that includes its own target and supporting sectors. In this example, the first cluster transmits multicast media on a first interlace-multiplex (IM) pair of a downlink broadcast channel (BCH) and the second cluster transmits multicast media on a second IM pair of the downlink BCH. If sectors of the first and second clusters overlap, the network controls a manner in which the first and second clusters carry the multicast media.