Patent ID: 7584293

Claim:
A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium for controlling a communication rate for the transmission of information between a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal via a core network in a wireless telecommunication system, each mobile terminal accessing the wireless telecommunication system via a respective access node, comprising: a first code segment in a first access node for determining a first maximum information transmission rate along a first air interface between the first access node and the first mobile terminal, wherein the first maximum information rate is dependent upon a Coder-Decoder used by the first mobile terminal and information transmitted between first mobile terminal and the first access node; a second code segment in a second access node in communication across the core network with the first code segment in the first access node for determining a second maximum information transmission rate along a second air interface between the second access node and the second mobile terminal, wherein the access nodes are adapted to monitor and control air interface resources and wherein the second maximum information rate is dependent upon a Coder-Decoder used by the second mobile terminal and information transmitted between the second mobile terminal and the second access node; third code segments in the first access node and second access node for cooperatively selecting a lowest one of the determined first and second maximum information transmission rates; and fourth code segments in the first access node and second access node for cooperatively authorizing or establishing a communication rate no greater than the selected lowest rate.