Patent ID: 9015780
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A video transmission system comprising: a video server module that selectively operates in a unicast mode in response to a request for video content from a single mobile video device and that receives location data from a plurality of mobile video devices and that selectively operates in a multicast mode in response to multiple requests for the video content from the plurality of mobile video devices and an analysis of the location data that indicates that the plurality of mobile video devices are within a common proximity, wherein the video server module generates a video signal that includes a unicast video signal when the video server module is in the unicast mode and that includes a multicast video signal when the video server module is in the multicast mode; and a wireless access device, coupled to the video server module, that transmits the video signal to the single mobile video device in the unicast mode and to the plurality of mobile video devices in the multicast mode.