US 12,470,897 B2
Methods and apparatuses for multicast and broadcast services
Mingzeng Dai, Shanghai (CN); Congchi Zhang, Shanghai (CN); Joachim Löhr, Wiesbaden (DE); Hyung-Nam Choi, Ottobrunn (DE); Prateek Basu Mallick, Dreieich (DE); Lianhai Wu, Beijing (CN); and Le Yan, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Limited, Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 18/257,375
Filed by Lenovo (Beijing) Limited, Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Dec. 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/136417
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 14, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/126359, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 23, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0031776 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01); H04W 76/40 (2018.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 4/06 (2013.01) [H04W 76/27 (2018.02); H04W 76/40 (2018.02); H04L 12/189 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a network entity, the method comprising:
determining whether a user equipment (UE) in a radio resource control (RRC) state of an RRC_IDLE state or an RRC_INACTIVE state should enter an RRC_CONNECTED state for reception of at least one multicast and broadcast services (MBS) session; and
transmitting, to the UE, indication information for indicating whether the UE should enter the RRC_CONNECTED state, the indication information causing the UE to receive the at least one MBS session.