Patent ID: 7283803

Claim:
A system supporting access to multimedia information by a plurality of access devices using location-aware quality of service management, the system comprising: a gateway communicatively coupled to a broadband network and at least one wireless interface, the gateway capable of selectively exchanging multimedia information among the at least one wireless interface and the broadband network, and of communicating with the plurality of access devices via the at least one wireless interface; the gateway capable of receiving from at least one of the plurality of access devices, at least one of information identifying an access device and information identifying a user; the gateway capable of accessing at least one user-defined quality of service criterion based upon the at least one of information identifying an access device and information identifying a user, wherein the at least one user-defined quality of service criterion comprises one or more of a bit rate, a bandwidth, a spatial resolution, a measure of gray scale levels, a color depth, a frame rate, a measure of dropped frames, a cost of usage, a measure of distortion of an audio signal, and/or a delivery delay the gateway capable of accepting a request for delivery of identified multimedia information; and the gateway capable of adjusting at least one parameter of the identified multimedia information based on the at least one user-defined quality of service criterion, to enable delivery.