ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,333, issued on April 15, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) receiving method and apparatus" was invented by Rui Zhou (Beijing), Dajun Zhang (Beijing), Li Chen (Beijing) and Erlin Zeng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) receiving method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining a first MBMS to be initiated; determining, according to a mapping relationship, a state instruction corresponding to the first MBMS, and the state instruction is used for instructing a terminal to receive ...