Method, Apparatus and Computer Program for Terminating Mobile Station Receipt of Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service (MBMS) Service Bearer

Abstract

In one non-limiting aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method, a computer program product and a mobile station operable in accordance therewith to originate a request at the mobile station to terminate reception of a Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service radio bearer; and to transmit the request to a wireless network that is the source of the Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service radio bearer. In another non-limiting aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method, a computer program product and a wireless network node operable in accordance therewith to receive a request from a mobile station to terminate reception of a Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service radio bearer and, in response, to send the mobile station a PACKET TBF RELEASE message that includes an identification of the mobile station and a TBF_RELEASE_CAUSE value defined as Stop Receiving MBMS Radio Bearer.

1 . A method, comprising:
 originating a request at a mobile station to terminate reception of a Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service radio bearer; and   transmitting the request to a wireless network that is the source of the Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service radio bearer.   
     
     
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