Patent ID: 9338098
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a firewall and from a multimedia server, one or more multimedia data packets addressed to a wireless device, the multimedia data packets included in a multicast data stream and comprising data representative of multimedia content requested by a user of the wireless device; transmitting, by the firewall, the multimedia data packets addressed to the wireless device to a gateway server for delivery through a mobile traffic network to the wireless device, the gateway server configured to track, for billing purposes, an amount of data packets communicated to and from the wireless device; receiving and counting, by the firewall, a number of error messages generated by at least one of the wireless device and the gateway server and forwarding the error messages to the multimedia server; determining, by the firewall, that the number of error messages meets a predetermined criterion, the predetermined criterion including at least one of: blocking, by the firewall, additional multimedia data packets received from the multimedia server and addressed to the wireless device from transmission to the gateway server, in response to the determining that the number of error messages meets the predetermined criterion.