Enabling a wireless communication device to swtich from one local network to a separate wide area network for a high priority multicast group communication
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorKirankumar ANCHAN
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Abstract
The disclosure is related to group communications over multimedia broadcast/multicast services (MBMS). An aspect determines whether a number of one or more user devices in an MBMS coverage area participating in a group call is less than a threshold, and delivers a media stream for the group call to a user device of the one or more user devices over a wireless local area network (WLAN) to which the user device is connected based on the number of the one or more user devices in the MBMS coverage area being less than the threshold.
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A method for group communications over multimedia broadcast/multicast services (MBMS), comprising:
- determining whether a number of one or more user devices in an MBMS coverage area participating in a group call is less than a threshold;
- and
- delivering a media stream for the group call to a user device of the one or more user devices over a wireless local area network (WLAN) to which the user device is connected based on the number of the one or more user devices in the MBMS coverage area being less than the threshold.
An apparatus for group communications over multimedia broadcast/multicast services (MBMS), comprising:
- logic configured to determine whether a number of one or more user devices in an MBMS coverage area participating in a group call is less than a threshold;
- and
- logic configured to deliver a media stream for the group call to a user device of the one or more user devices over a wireless local area network (WLAN) to which the user device is connected based on the number of the one or more user devices in the MBMS coverage area being less than the threshold.
An apparatus for group communications over multimedia broadcast/multicast services (MBMS), comprising:
- means for determining whether a number of one or more user devices in an MBMS coverage area participating in a group call is less than a threshold;
- and
- means for delivering a media stream for the group call to a user device of the one or more user devices over a wireless local area network (WLAN) to which the user device is connected based on the number of the one or more user devices in the MBMS coverage area being less than the threshold.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium for group communications over multimedia broadcast/multicast services (MBMS), comprising:
- at least one instruction to determine whether a number of one or more user devices in an MBMS coverage area participating in a group call is less than a threshold;
- and
- at least one instruction to deliver a media stream for the group call to a user device of the one or more user devices over a wireless local area network (WLAN) to which the user device is connected based on the number of the one or more user devices in the MBMS coverage area being less than the threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.