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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2012
Paul Anthony Howard, Bristol, GB;
Paul Anthony Howard, Bristol, GB;
SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transmitting data to terminal devices in a wireless telecommunications system. The data may be user-plane data associated with a repeating Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS) session to be transmitted using MBMS over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) in a network including at least one relay node supported by a donor base station. The method includes delivering the data from the base station to the relay node in advance of a scheduled transmission to terminal devices at a first time, and transmitting the data from the relay node to a terminal device at the first time. The relay node is configured to store the data in a cache. The relay node may then retrieve the data from the cache in advance of a scheduled transmission to terminal devices at a second time, and transmit the retrieved data to a terminal device at the second time.