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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2012
Rene Purnadi, Irving, TX (US);
Zhijun Cai, Euless, TX (US);
Rene Purnadi, Irving, TX (US);
Zhijun Cai, Euless, TX (US);
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
Methods and systems for managing Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) service continuity include, with a source node in a communication system, providing an MBMS, processing an event that indicates that a User Equipment (UE) being serviced by the source node is to be transferred to one of a number of candidate nodes, receiving a congestion bit from each of the candidate nodes, and providing data to the UE that causes the UE to be serviced by a target node selected from the candidate nodes based at least in part on values of the congestion bits from each of the candidate nodes.