METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING BCMCS INFORMATION

• US 20110002254A1
• Filed: 04/10/2006
• Published: 01/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Young Jun, An, Jong Hoe, Kyung, Chan Ho
• Granted Patent: US 8,213,324 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information

Abstract

A broadcast/multicast service information receiving method and broadcast/multicast service information transmitting method using the same are disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of receiving length information of a BCMCS component flow discriminator (BCMCS Flow Discriminator) configuring a BCMC service flow identifier (BCMCS Flow Identifier) and receiving information for a number of BCMCS component flow discriminators configuring the BCMC service flow identifier using a bit number corresponding to a value of the length information of the BCMCS component flow discriminator. Accordingly, the information for the BCMCS component flow identifier can be efficiently transmitted and received.

Claims

1. In receiving information for receiving a broadcast/multicast (BCMC) service, a broadcast/multicast service information receiving method, comprising the steps of:

receiving length information of a BCMC service component flow discriminator configuring a BCMC service flow identifier; and

receiving information for a number of BCMC service component flow discriminators configuring the BCMC service flow identifier using a bit number corresponding to a value of the length information of the BCMC service component flow discriminator.

2. The broadcast/multicast service information receiving method of claim 1, wherein the length information of the BCMC service component flow discriminator and the information for the number of BCMC service component flow discriminators are received via at least one of a broadcast overhead message, a broadcast registration message and a broadcast reject message.

3. The broadcast/multicast service information receiving method of claim 1, wherein the BCMC service flow identifier includes information for a length of the BCMC service component flow discriminator, information for a BCMCS program and the BCMC service component flow discriminator.

4. The broadcast/multicast service information receiving method of claim 1, wherein after receiving and decoding the length of the BCMC service component flow discriminator, the information for the number of the BCMC service component flow discriminators are received and decoded.

5. The broadcast/multicast service information receiving method of claim 1, wherein the information for the number of the BCMC service component flow discriminators configuring the BCMC service flow identifier using bits amounting to a same number of the value of the length information of the BCMC service component flow discriminator are received.

6. The broadcast/multicast service information receiving method of claim 1, wherein the value of the length information of the BCMC service component flow discriminator has a value except zero.

7. The broadcast/multicast service information receiving method of claim 1, wherein the length information of the BCMC, service component flow discriminator is received via a Flow DiscriminatorLength Field and wherein the information for the number of the BCMC service component flow discriminators is received via a Flow Discriminator Count field.

8. The broadcast/multicast service information receiving method of claim 7, wherein the length information of the BCMC service component flow discriminator is represented as a 3-bit length.

9. In a broadcast/multicast (BCMC) data service, a method of transmitting broadcast/multicast data service support information, comprising the steps of:

setting length information of a BCMC service component flow discriminator configuring a BCMC service flow identifier; and

setting information for a number of BCMC service component flow discriminators configuring the BCMC service flow identifier using a bit number variable according to a length of the BCMCS component flow discriminator.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the length information of the BCMC service component flow discriminator and the information for the number of BCMC service component flow discriminators are received via at least one of a broadcast overhead message, a broadcast registration message and a broadcast reject message.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the length information of the BCMCS component flow discriminator is received via a BCMCS Flow DiscriminatorLength Field and wherein the information for the number of the BCMC service component flow discriminators is received via a BCMC service Flow Discriminator Count field.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the length information of the BCMC service component flow discriminator is represented as a 3-bit length.