Patent ID: 8793743
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04N,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method to be performed by a proxy terminal, the method comprising: activating multicast broadcast multimedia service (MBMS) with a broadcast multicast service center (BMSC); receiving media presentation description (MPD) metadata from the BMSC via user service discovery (USD) signaling, the MPD metadata associated with media data; receiving at least a portion of the media data associated with the MPD metadata from the BMSC via an MBMS transmission, the MBMS transmission being a broadcast transmission; caching the received media data and metadata; receiving a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a HTTP access client hosted in a user equipment (UE) to receive at least a portion of the cached media data and metadata; and transmitting, in response to the HTTP request, the at least a portion of the cached media data and metadata to the UE via unicast HTTP signaling.