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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2008
Applicants:
Markku Juha Vainikka, Kiviniemi, FI;
Vinh Van Phan, Oulu, FI;
Inventors:
Markku Juha Vainikka, Kiviniemi, FI;
Vinh Van Phan, Oulu, FI;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 20/71 (2008.01); H04W 76/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/002 (2013.01); H04W 76/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A simple and effective mechanism is shown to determine and utilize information about idle user equipment which received MBMS services for purposes of audience monitoring. The implementation can be done by defining a new information element (IE) for a proposed MBMS status information and embedding the new IE into a UE-originated message of a network control signaling procedure, e.g., RRC Connection Request which may be sent at the convenience of the UE when it transitions from the idle state to the active state for its own purposes, i.e., purposes primarily other than audience monitoring.