Patent ID: 9661572
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. An apparatus configured to control delivering content from a content source provider to a content user (UE) in a mobile telecommunication network, comprising: a processor configured to receive the content from the content source provider, and send the content to the content user using a first transmission rate for a first time interval and then using a second transmission rate that is lower than the first transmission rate, wherein the first time interval is determined using at least a characteristic of the received content so that while the content is sent using the first and second transmission rates an amount of the content already received by the content user exceeds an amount of the content used by the content user, wherein the content user is in a first radio state while sending using the first transmission rate and in a second radio state while sending using the second transmission rate, and wherein the content user uses less power in the second radio state than in the first radio state.