Patent ID: 9294956
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for preemptively establishing a multicast bearer, comprising: determining whether adding a multicast session to a plurality of multicast bearers will exceed a high bandwidth threshold; requesting, based on determining that adding the multicast session will exceed the high bandwidth threshold, setup of a new multicast bearer; hosting the multicast session on an available one of the plurality of multicast bearers or the new multicast bearer; deducting, based on the multicast session ending, a bandwidth of the multicast session from an aggregate bandwidth of a pool of multicast bearers comprising the plurality of multicast bearers and the new multicast bearer; determining whether the aggregate bandwidth falls below a low bandwidth threshold; and deactivating, based on determining that the aggregate bandwidth falls below the low bandwidth threshold, one of the plurality of multicast bearers or the new multicast bearer.