Patent ID: 7831265

Claim:
A transmitting mobile wireless device to transmit rate controlled video to a receiving mobile wireless device comprising: a video codec configured to encode a video at an encoding rate; a radio transceiver configured to connect to a mobile wireless network via a first radio transport channel having a first capacity, the mobile wireless network configured to connect to the receiving mobile wireless device via a second radio transport channel having a second capacity, the radio transceiver to send the encoded video to the receiving mobile wireless device over the first channel, the mobile wireless network, and the second channel; a radio resource management (RRM) module coupled with the radio transceiver and configured to change the capacity of the first radio transport channel; a performance monitor configured to receive performance measurements of radio environments related to the first and second channels; and the RRM module configured to send a request to the mobile wireless network to increase the first channel capacity if the performance measurements indicate the radio environments related to the first and second channels can support a proposed increase in the first channel capacity and a proposed increase in the second channel capacity.