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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2015
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Guang Lu, Thornhill, CA;
Shamim A. Rahman, Cote St. Luc, CA;
Juan Carlos Zuniga, Montréal, CA;
Michelle Perras, Montréal, CA;
Catherine M. Livet, Montréal, CA;
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE;
Abstract
A method for supporting proxy mobile internet protocol (PMIP) in a local mobility anchor (LMA) is described. The method includes receiving a request for multicast information corresponding to a request for multicast services from at least one of a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) which require multicast services associated with a multicast group. The method also includes transmitting, to a mobile access gateway (MAG) via an aggregated multicast tunnel, multicast information for distribution to at least one of the plurality of WTRUs in the multicast group. The multicast information comprises an IP address corresponding to the multicast group.