METHOD OF TRANSMITTING COUNTING RESPONSE MESSAGE INDICATING SERVICE AREA AT USER EQUIPMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF

• US 20120009947A1
• Filed: 06/08/2011
• Published: 01/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Sungjun, Lee, Youngdae, Jung, Sunghoon, Yi, Seungjune, Chun, Sungduck
• Granted Patent: US 8,688,145 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• 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 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/14 using user query or user detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states

Abstract

A method for a user equipment to transmit a message in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of receiving a first message containing an information on at least one service from a network and transmitting a second message indicating a specific area and a specific service to the network in response to the first message, if wishing to receive the specific service of the at least one service or being interested to receive the specific service of the at least one service. Preferably, the present invention further includes the step of receiving system information for providing information on at least one area.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting a message by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of:

receiving a first message comprising information on at least one service from a network; and

transmitting a second message indicating a specific area and a specific service to the network in response to the first message, if wishing to receive the specific service of the at least one service or being interested to receive the specific service of the at least one service.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the specific service in the specific area from the network.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving system information for providing information on at least one area.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

identifying the specific area related to the specific service based on the information on the at least one area.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the specific area corresponds to an area, in which the first message is received, among the at least one area.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific area includes at least one cell for providing the specific service.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message comprises an MBMS (multimedia broadcast multicast service) counting request message and wherein the second message comprises an MBMS counting response message.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the information on the at least one area comprises an MBSFN (MBMS single frequency network) area information list.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the user equipment is in an RRC (radio resource control) connected state (RRC_CONNECTED).

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the second message comprises an index of the specific area in the information on the at least one area.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the second message comprises an index of the specific service corresponding to the specific area.

12. A user equipment in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a wireless communication module configured to transceive signals with a network; and

a processor configured to control the wireless communication module, and to process the signals,

wherein the wireless communication module receives a first message comprising information on at least one service from a network, and

wherein the processor generates a second message indicating a specific area and a specific service to transmit the second message to the network in response to the first message, if wishing to receive the specific service of the at least one service or being interested to receive the specific service of the at least one service.

13. The user equipment of claim 12, wherein the wireless communication module receives system information for providing information on at least one area.

14. The user equipment of claim 13, wherein the information on the at least one area comprises an MBSFN (MBMS single frequency network) area information list.

15. The user equipment of claim 14, wherein the second message comprises an index of the specific area in the information on the at least one area.