Patent ID: 8681768

Claim:
A method for transmitting a first and a second media file via a wireless base station to a first and second destination respectively over a broadband channel having excess bandwidth, the method comprising: (a) establishing first and second data connections to the first and second destinations respectively through the wireless base station; (b) sending a part of the first media file in a burst of data packets to the wireless base station over the first data connection at a higher than a first average packet rate, the first average packet rate corresponding to a first average bandwidth required for transmitting the first media file; (c) at the wireless base station: allocating the broadband channel to the first data connection; forwarding the burst of data packets to the first destination over the broadband channel; and releasing the broadband channel following the forwarding of the burst, after a hold-over period; (d) sending a part of the second media file in another burst of data packets to the wireless base station over the second data connection at a higher than a second average packet rate, the second average packet rate corresponding to a second average bandwidth required for transmitting the second media file; (e) at the wireless base station: allocating the broadband channel to the second data connection; forwarding the another burst of data packets to the second destination over the broadband channel; and releasing the broadband channel following the forwarding of the another burst, after another hold-over period; and (f) repeatedly performing the steps (b) to (e) in a throttling window until the first and second media files have been sent; wherein a duration of a window period W for the throttling window is designed to be sufficient to accommodate at least a sum the burst of data packets, the hold-over period, the another burst of data packets, and the another hold-over period.