Patent ID: 8520662

Claim:
One or more circuits supporting access to multimedia information by an access device, using location-aware quality of service management in a communication network, the one or more circuits comprising: at least one processor operatively coupled to interface circuitry for communicating over the communication network, the at least one processor operable to, at least: receive information identifying one or both of the access device and a user; determine an approximate current location of the access device; access at least one user-defined quality of service criterion based upon the information identifying one or both of an access device and a user; accept a request for delivery of identified multimedia information; using the approximate current location of the access device, determine a first available bandwidth at the approximate current location of the access device; adjust at least one parameter of the identified multimedia information to conform to the first available bandwidth at the approximate current location of the access device and to conform to the at least one user-defined quality of service criterion to provide a first quality of service level upon delivery of the identified multimedia information to the user; subsequently, following a location change of the access device in the communication network, determine a new location of the access device; determine a second available bandwidth at the new location of the access device, the second available bandwidth being different from the first available bandwidth; and adjust the at least one parameter of the identified multimedia information to conform to the second available bandwidth and to the at least one user-defined quality of service criterion to provide a second quality of service level upon delivery of the identified multimedia information to the user that is different from the first quality of service level.