Patent ID: 8824509

Claim:
A method for providing data, video and voice to a group of end user devices, the method comprising: receiving end user device group quality of service rules and access network node bandwidth constraints; assigning multicast addresses and unicast addresses to end user devices of the group in response to the access node bandwidth constraints, the multicast and unicast addresses being assigned to the end user devices in response to locations of the end user devices; in response to the end user device group quality of service rules and requests to receive services received from residential gateways, providing data, video and voice utilizing the assigned multicast addresses and unicast addresses; and compressing a program based on respective locations of recipients of the program, adaptively compressing the program in different compression levels, facilitating providing the program using at least two separate compression levels, one compressed program being more compressed than another version of the program, wherein the more compressed program is provided to a first recipient of the program that is more remote than a second recipient receiving the other version of the program.