Patent ID: 9338715
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving into a unicast gateway a request to establish a unicast bearer between the unicast gateway and a user equipment device (UE); responsive to the request, (a) the unicast gateway engaging in signaling to facilitate establishment of the unicast bearer between the unicast gateway and the UE, and (b) the unicast gateway determining whether the UE is a broadcast recipient of an ongoing transmission of a media sequence from a broadcast server; and responsive to the determining being that the UE is a broadcast recipient of the ongoing transmission of the media sequence from the broadcast server, (a) the unicast gateway determining a transition point in the media sequence, and (b) the unicast gateway beginning to unicast the media sequence to the UE, via the unicast bearer, starting at a point in the media sequence based on the determined transition point, wherein the method further comprises the unicast gateway receiving from a content synchronizer a report of which one or more UEs are each a broadcast recipient of the ongoing transmission of the media sequence, wherein determining that the UE is a broadcast recipient of the ongoing transmission of the media sequence is based on the received report.