Patent ID: 8370506

Claim:
A method of delivering multimedia content to a mobile device, the method comprising: establishing, by a service delivery module of a Service Delivery Platform (SDP), a session between a media server and a mobile device using a signaling protocol; receiving, by the SDP, an initial request in the signaling protocol from the mobile device to initiate a session for delivery of the multimedia content from the media server; sending, by the SDP, the initial request to the media server to begin delivery of the multimedia content to the mobile device; receiving, by the SDP, a subsequent request in the signaling protocol from the mobile device to alter a delivery mode of the multimedia content based on at least one of a plurality of playback control instructions from the mobile device, the at least one playback control instruction included in the subsequent request and wherein the plurality of playback control instructions includes at least a regular playback control, a pause control, a forward control, a fast forward control, and a reverse control; and sending a corresponding request from the SDP to the media server to alter the delivery mode of the content during delivery of the multimedia content from the media server to the mobile device and based on the at least one playback control instruction to provide the requested playback control.