Patent ID: 8917658

Claim:
A method, implemented by a policy node, for processing media requests in a wireless communication network, comprising: receiving, from an application node, a list of one or more supported Radio Access Technology (RAT) types over which a requested piece of media is available; determining if the one or more supported RAT types over which the requested piece of media is available match a RAT type that a requesting wireless terminal is using or is able to use; when the determining indicates that the wireless terminal is using one of the supported RAT types, transmitting an acceptance response to the application node; when the determining indicates that the wireless terminal is not using and is not able to use any of the supported RAT types, transmitting a denial response to the application node; and when the determining indicates that the wireless terminal is not using, but is able to use, one of the supported RAT types, transmitting, to the wireless terminal, a request for the wireless terminal to start the one supported RAT type.