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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2012
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Chris Mcevilly, Bagshot, IE;
Daniel Molander, Bromma, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method in, and a Broadcast Management unit () for providing digital content to a user equipment (), and a method in, and a user equipment () for receiving digital content. The user equipment () is served by a base station () in a cell () of a cellular communications network (). The Broadcast Management unit decides () to provide a digital content by broadcast or multicast in a service area () comprising the cell (), instead of only letting the digital content be available in the service area () by unicast. The Broadcast Management unit provides (-), in response to the decision, broadcast or multicast of the digital content in the service area (), thereby enabling reception of the digital content by the user equipment () via the base station () and by one or more additional user equipments () being served in the service area (). As a result, improvement of performance is enabled in the cellular communications network.