Patent ID: 8577385

Claim:
A method of delivering media to a plurality of mobile devices in a communication group, the method comprising: a group transport function (GTF) performing: receiving media for delivery to a plurality of mobile devices in a group, wherein the plurality of mobile devices are served by a plurality of cells, wherein each mobile device is wirelessly connected to one of the cells; receiving a plurality of inputs comprising at least capabilities of each mobile device in the group to receive the media using point-to-multipoint media transport and capabilities of each cell of the plurality of cells to deliver the media using point-to-multipoint or point-to-point transport; applying a set of policy rules to the plurality of inputs to determine, for each mobile device in the group, whether to deliver the content to the mobile device using point-to-multipoint or point-to-point media transport, wherein the policy rules are based on one or more of a role, in the communication group, of a group member associated with the mobile device and a type of an incident for which a group member associated with the mobile device is involved; initiating an allocation of a set of resources in each cell to transport the media to each mobile device in the group using the determined media transport for that mobile device, wherein initiating an allocation of a set of resources comprises initiating allocation of at least one Multicast Broadcast Multimedia Service bearer; replicating the media; and conveying the replicated media to the plurality of cells for delivery to the plurality of mobile devices over the allocated resources using the determined media transport for each mobile device.