Multi-Service Content Broadcast for User Controlled Selective Service Receive

摘要

A multimedia communications system for broadcast distribution of multimedia content to mobile terminals over a cellular network is disclosed. The disclosed system accesses content providers, receives corresponding content information associated with provider content, and broadcasts content information to user terminals. The user terminals include software and/or hardware for receiving the content information and enabling a user to subscribe to one or more content items. Once a subscription is in place for one or more content items, corresponding content IDs are sent to and stored at the terminal. The system facilitates broadcast of the content. Content IDs stored in the terminal and broadcasted content IDs are compared. Only the content associated with the matching content IDs is then downloaded to the user terminal for storage and/or presentation. Content associated with unmatched content IDs is prevented from being received.

主权项

1. A mobile communications device comprising:
a processor; and a memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a multimedia communications service by way of a regular cell of a cluster of cells of a cellular communications network, multimedia content identity information associated with multimedia content provided by a service provider;initiating, responsive to a match between the multimedia content identity information received and user-selected multimedia content identity information, a handover from a regular cell of the cluster of cells of the cellular communications network to a super cell of the cluster of cells of the cellular communications network; andreceiving the multimedia content from the multimedia communications service by way of the super cell after the handover to the super cell.