Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Telecommunications apparatus and methods
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Application No.: US14239005Application Date: 2012-08-13
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Publication No.: US09326107B2Publication Date: 2016-04-26
- Inventor: Paul Anthony Howard
- Applicant: Paul Anthony Howard
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC
- Current Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: GB1114334.4 20110819
- International Application: PCT/GB2012/051969 WO 20120813
- International Announcement: WO2013/027022 WO 20130228
- Main IPC: H04W4/06
- IPC: H04W4/06 ; H04W84/04 ; H04W88/04

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for transmitting data to terminal devices in a wireless telecommunications system. The data may be user-plane data associated with a repeating Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS) session to be transmitted using MBMS over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) in a network including at least one relay node supported by a donor base station. The scheme includes delivering the data from the base station to the relay node in advance of a scheduled transmission to terminal devices at a first time, and transmitting the data from the relay node to a terminal device at the first time. The relay node is further configured to store the data in a cache. The relay node may then retrieve the data from the cache in advance of a scheduled transmission to terminal devices at a second time, and transmit the retrieved data to a terminal device at the second time.
Public/Granted literature
- US09456313B2 Telecommunications apparatus and methods Public/Granted day:2016-09-27
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