MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647105723 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy on September 02, 2026, for Devices, Methods, Apparatuses, And Computer Readable Media For Multicast Reception.
Inventors include Elmali, Ugur Baran; Godin, Philippe; Narayanan, Subin; Nadaf, Salman; M. Soleymani, Dariush; and Koskela, Jarkko Tuomo.
The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.
Abstract: Disclosed are devices, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for multicast reception An example apparatus for a terminal device may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory may store instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, may cause the apparatus at least to: receive from a first cell, a configuration allowing the apparatus to receive a multicast service in radio resource control, RRC, inactive state; receive from the first cell, a configuration for receiving the multicast service in the RRC inactive state; select to camp in the first cell and enter into the RRC inactive state; determine, implicitly based on available information on the first cell, whether the first cell operates the multicast service without a first multicast control channel, MCCH; and based on the configurations, the available information on the first cell and determining that the first cell operates the multicast service without the first MCCH, stay in the RRC inactive state in the first cell to receive the multicast service in the RRC inactive state.
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