Patent ID: 8725062

Claim:
A wireless access point, comprising: a media content storage device for storing media content for delivery as streaming media; wireless transceiver circuitry for transmitting and receiving wireless communication signals to and from at least one mobile terminal located within a service area supported by the wireless access point; and wherein the wireless access point is configured to: retrieve the media content from the media content storage device; when a request is received for streaming media from the at least one mobile terminal within a service area supported by the wireless access point, the wireless access point is configured to broadcast transmit the streaming media from the wireless transceiver circuitry using a wireless local area network (WLAN) protocol to the at least one mobile terminal within the service area supported by the wireless access point without specifying single or multi-point destinations for the broadcast transmissions; generate an invitation for delivery of the streaming media through an upstream transceiver onto a wired network to a remote access point for transmission by the remote access point to another mobile terminal attached to the remote access point in another service area supported by the remote wireless access point; and when a request is received for the streaming media from the another mobile terminal within the another service area supported by the remote wireless access point, the wireless access point is configured to broadcast transmit at an increased power level the streaming media from the wireless transceiver circuitry using the WLAN protocol to the another service area supported by the remote wireless access point without specifying single or multi-point destinations for the broadcast transmissions.