Patent ID: 8296810
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: H04H,H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a wireless video uplink system having a reservation system and a plurality of wireless access systems, the method comprising: in the reservation system, receiving a video uplink request that indicates a user, a geographic location, and a time period; in the reservation system, processing the video uplink request to select one of the wireless access systems that serves the geographic location; in the reservation system, determining if the selected wireless access system has available video uplink capacity during the time period, and if the selected wireless access system has available video uplink capacity during the time period, then directing the selected wireless access system to provide a wireless video uplink to a wireless video device associated with the user during the time period; in the selected wireless access system, wirelessly receiving video data over the video uplink from the wireless video device during the time period and inhibiting another video uplink attempt from another wireless video device during the time period.