Patent ID: 8908577

Claim:
A method of reducing acquisition time for streaming media in a transmission side of a wireless communication environment, comprising: employing an IP buffer in a radio access network (RAN) interface between a RAN and a user device to buffer received IP packets of streaming media data of the streaming media prior to transmitting the IP packets to the user device on a downlink, wherein the IP buffer is disposed on a RAN transmission side of the downlink and dejitters and unwraps the received IP packets; and encoding the IP packets buffered by the IP buffer utilizing a phy-aware encoder which is aware of a physical layer, and a structure thereof, used with respect to the RAN interface over which the streaming media will be transmitted to employ a variable data rate and a fixed or variable delivery time within a specified time window to form the IP packets to fill a burst size allocated by the physical layer to contain a correct amount of media data for a next superframe and provide the user device with the media data for display without the user device performing IP dejittering buffering and to reduce acquisition time for streaming media in the transmission side of the wireless communication environment.