Patent ID: 9344770
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a wireless communication system to provide a wireless video service, the method comprising: in a base station, wirelessly broadcasting signals including a network access provider identifier and a base station identifier and responsively receiving a video uplink request from a wireless video device and a data transfer request from another wireless communication device; in a control system, responsive to the video uplink request, determining if the wireless video device has a reservation, and if the wireless video device does not have the reservation then determining if the base station has capacity to service the video up-link request, and if the wireless video device has the reservation or if the base station has the capacity, then directing the base station to service the video uplink request for the wireless video device, wherein the control system gives priority to reserved video uplinks over non-reserved video uplinks to maintain quality-of-service on the reserved video uplinks; in the control system, responsive to the data transfer request, determining if the base station has additional capacity to service the data transfer request, and if the base station has the additional capacity, then directing the base station to service the data transfer request, wherein the control system gives priority to the video uplinks over data transfers to maintain quality-of-service on the video uplinks.