Patent ID: 9490948
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A bandwidth management (BWM) server, residing at a mobile core network, that is configured to receive, via an internet connection, packets of HTML traffic from at least one of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) or an application service provider device and transmit video from the mobile core network via a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs), the BWM server comprising: a traffic detection function configured to: a processor configured to determine whether to implement bandwidth aggregation (BWA) to simultaneously transmit the video stream using the plurality of RATs based on the at least one video streaming format indicated by the video tag, wherein the determination is performed to meet a policy for managing a bandwidth associated with the at least one video streaming format; and at least one transmitter configured to transmit the video stream using the plurality of RATs.