Patent ID: 8625667

Claim:
A method for use at a mobile device adapted to communicate via a wireless access link, comprising: at the mobile device, coding a video signal as a base layer and one or more additional layers, wherein the base layer provides information sufficient to recover viewable video content and the one or more additional layers provide information adapted to improve viewable video content quality; determining a present capacity of said wireless access link; transmitting from the mobile device said base layer and an initial number of said additional layers via said wireless access link in an initial transmission, said initial number of said additional layers selected to ensure that said initial transmission is within said determined present capacity of said wireless access link; storing at the mobile device only those portions of the base layer and additional layers not yet transmitted via said wireless link; and transmitting from the mobile device at least one of a remaining number of said additional layers stored at the mobile device via said wireless access link as sufficient wireless link capacity becomes available.