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Adaptive mobile multicasting for wireless networks

  • US 8,817,684 B2
  • Filed: 12/17/2010
  • Issued: 08/26/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

  • tracking, by one or more computing devices, a quantity of videos that are being streamed, over a wireless interface, of a wireless network and to mobile devices, at any particular time;

    determining, by the one or more computing devices, based on the tracked quantity of videos, a number of requests for the one or more of the videos, and a quantity of cells in the wireless network, whether to dedicate a radio channel, of at least one cell in the wireless network, to streaming a first of the videos;

    directing, in response to the determination, a base station corresponding to the at least one cell in the wireless network to dedicate the radio channel to stream the first video; and

    transmitting, by the one or more computing devices and in response to a request, from a mobile device, for the first video, an identification of the dedicated radio channel so that the mobile device can receive the first video as a streaming video over the dedicated radio channel.

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