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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2012
Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Jun Wang, La Jolla, CA (US);
Zhengwei Liu, San Diego, CA (US);
Andrea Garavaglia, Bavaria, DE;
Kuo-chun Lee, San Diego, CA (US);
George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Jun Wang, La Jolla, CA (US);
Zhengwei Liu, San Diego, CA (US);
Andrea Garavaglia, Bavaria, DE;
Kuo-Chun Lee, San Diego, CA (US);
George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Transfer of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS) over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) service and idle mode unicast service for a mobile entity from a source base station to a target base station may be managed by a base station or mobile entity of a cellular wireless communications system (WCS). Operations related to the transfer may include obtaining an MBMS status of the mobile entity, and/or obtaining MBMS support information for the base station. A network entity may facilitate MBMS discovery by a mobile entity, by transmitting a data element to the mobile entity including service identifiers mapped to corresponding cell identifiers to indicate respective MBMS services to be broadcast in an WCS area on adjacent cells identified by respective ones of the cell identifiers. The MBMS services may be broadcast within the WCS area using the adjacent cells previously indicated in the data element.