MRB Deactivation and Activation

Organization Name

apple inc.

Inventor(s)

Fangli Xu of Beijing (CN)

Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US)

Haijing Hu of Los Gatos CA (US)

Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata of San Diego CA (US)

Ralf Rossbach of Munich (DE)

Sarma V Vangala of Campbell CA (US)

Sethuraman Gurumoorthy of San Ramon CA (US)

Srirang A Lovlekar of Fremont CA (US)

Yuqin Chen of Beijing (CN)

Zhibin Wu of Los Altos CA (US)

MRB Deactivation and Activation

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250070996 titled 'MRB Deactivation and Activation

Original Abstract Submitted

a user equipment (ue) is configured to deactivate/activate a point-to-multipoint (ptm) link of a multicast radio bearer (mrb). the ue receives, from a base station of a wireless network, a multicast radio bearer (mrb) configuration, wherein the mrb includes configuration of a split mrb including a point to multipoint (ptm) link and a point to point (ptp) link, deactivates or activates the ptm link based on the mrb configuration, reestablishes a radio link control (rlc) associated with the ptm link and recovers a packet data convergence protocol (pdcp).