Interest indication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12563367-B2
Application number	US-202018249528-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 22, 2020
Priority date	Oct 22, 2020
Publication date	Feb 24, 2026
Grant date	Feb 24, 2026

Abstract

An apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: determining system information available from a network; and requesting system information from the network, wherein the request for system information comprises an indication of interest in at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An terminal node comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the terminal node to perform: determining system information available from a network, wherein determining system information available from a network comprises determining one or more system information block, SIBs, and one or more system information messages available from a network; requesting system information from the network, wherein the request for system information comprises an indication of interest in at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services, wherein requesting system information from the network comprises requesting one or more system information blocks (SIBs) and one or more system information messages from the network, and wherein the request comprises a DedicatedSIBRequest RRC message that carries the indication in one or more information elements, receiving the at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services from the network; and receiving the requested system information in the determined one or more SIBs and one or more system information messages from the network.

2 . The terminal node as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the DedicatedSIBRequest RRC message comprises a requestedSIB-List information element identifying at least one or more system information blocks that contain information regarding at least one or more multicast and broadcast services.

3 . The terminal node as claimed in claim 1 , wherein requesting system information from the network comprises requesting system information that contains information regarding at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services and/or other configuration related to at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services, wherein requesting system information is performed responsive to SIB1 scheduling information indicating that an MBMS/MBS SIB has si-BroadcastStatus set to notBroadcasting.

4 . The terminal node as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the indication of interest in at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services is implicit from a request for system information that contains information regarding at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services and/or other configuration related to at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services, wherein the request comprises a requestedSIB-List information element identifying an MBMS and/or MBS SIB.

5 . The terminal node as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the indication of interest in at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services comprises:
a general indication of interest in multicast and/or broadcast services; at least one identification of a multicast and/or broadcast service; and and a request for information regarding at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast service, wherein the at least one identification comprises a list of multicast and/or broadcast services known by the terminal to be locally provided.

6 . A method performed by a terminal node comprising:
determining system information available from a network, wherein determining system information available from a network comprises determining one or more system information block, SIBs, and one or more system information messages available from a network; requesting system information from the network, wherein the request for system information comprises an indication of interest in at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services, wherein requesting system information from the network comprises requesting one or more system information blocks (SIBs) and one or more system information messages from the network, and wherein the request comprises a DedicatedSIBRequest RRC message that carries the indication in one or more information elements, receiving the at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services from the network; and receiving the requested system information in the determined one or more SIBs and one or more system information messages from the network.

7 . The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the DedicatedSIBRequest RRC message comprises a requestedSIB-List information element identifying at least one or more system information blocks that contain information regarding at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services.

8 . The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein requesting system information from the network comprises requesting system information that contains information regarding at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services and/or other configuration related to at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services, wherein the DedicatedSIBRequest RRC message includes one or more information elements that provide the indication of interest and one or more information elements that identify the requested SIBs.

9 . The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the indication of interest in at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services is implicit from a request for system information that contains information regarding at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services and/or other configuration related to at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services, wherein the request specifies an MBMS and/or MBS system information message and/or an MBMS and/or MBS SIB.

10 . The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the indication of interest in at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services comprises:
a general indication of interest in multicast and/or broadcast services; at least one identification of a multicast and/or broadcast service; and a request for information regarding at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast service.

11 . An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: receiving, from a terminal node, a request for system information, wherein the request for system information comprises an indication of interest in at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services, wherein receiving the request for system information comprises receiving a request for one or more system information blocks (SIBs) and one or more system information messages from the terminal node, and wherein receiving the request for system information comprises receiving a DedicatedSIBRequest RRC message that carries the indication in one or more information elements; and performing one or more actions based, at least in part, on the received indication of interest in at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services, wherein the one or more actions comprise: transmitting the at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services to the terminal node; and transmitting the requested system information in the one or more system information block, SIBs, and one or more system information messages to the terminal node.

12 . The apparatus as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the DedicatedSIBRequest RRC message comprises a requestedSIB-List information element identifying at least one or more system information blocks that contain information regarding at least one or more multicast and broadcast services.

13 . The apparatus as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the request for system information comprises a request for system information that contains information regarding at least one or more multicast and/or broadcast services and/or other configuration related to at least one or mo

Assignees

• Nokia Technologies Oy
• Nokia Tech

Inventors

• Thyagarajan Manivannan
• Sebire Benoist
• He Jing

Classifications

• H04W48/14

  using user query {or user detection} · CPC title

• H04W48/10

  using broadcasted information · CPC title

• H04W36/0007

  for multicast or broadcast services, e.g. MBMS (multicast or broadcast application services H04W4/06; resource management for broadcast services H04W72/30; connection management for selective distribution or broadcast H04W76/40) · CPC title

• H04W48/12

  using downlink control channel · CPC title

• H04W4/06 Primary

  Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services · CPC title