Enhanced network-network interface systems and methods for multimedia broadcast multicast services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9510160-B2
Application number	US-201213664527-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2012
Priority date	Oct 31, 2012
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

A method between a controlling server and a participating server, a network, and a server include enhanced signaling via a Multicast-Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) report allowing User Equipment (UE) to communicate MBSFN areas to a controlling server. Thus, the enhanced controlling server's Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) decisions can count all visiting devices in addition to its own in its MBSFN areas. The method, network, and server include new signaling and additional info to provide a participating server with MBSFN areas that will have MBMS activated for a group session. This enhances the participating server's determination of which its visiting devices need unicast bearers. The participating server can add information related to the current MBSFN area of its UE to a message to the controlling server indicating joining the UE to a group.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method between a controlling server and a participating server, comprising:
establishing a session between the participating server and the controlling server responsive to a first User Equipment (UE) belonging to the participating server joining a group session homed at the controlling server;
conveying, by the participating server to the controlling server, control signaling comprising a current broadcast area of UEs in the group session that belong to…

Assignees

• Motorola Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Agulnik Anatoly
• Drozt Peter M
• Korus Michael F

Classifications

• H04W4/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/10

  Electricity · mapped topic