Patent ID: 8867425

Claim:
A method of assigning Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (E-MBMS) bearers in a Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) area in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) compliant wireless communication system, the method comprising: an infrastructure device operably coupled to the 3GPP compliant system, the 3GPP compliant system having a radio access network comprising one or more MBSFN areas, wherein each MBSFN area supports a plurality of E-MBMS bearers for transporting media streams to user equipments (UE), the infrastructure device using application layer processing to perform: receiving information from a UE, the information comprising: an identifier that identifies at least a primary preferred MBSFN area for providing transmissions to the UE; a request for a boost to the quality of the transmissions received by the UE; using a first E-MBMS bearer and a second E-MBMS bearer in an MBSFN area, to support a call to the UE, the first E-MBMS bearer providing a first media content stream to the UE and the second E-MBMS bearer providing a second media content stream to the UE, the first media content stream and the second media content stream comprising the same information.