Patent ID: 8391896

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a mobile terminal, an indication of network performance parameters associated with a corresponding time and location of a projected route of the mobile terminal; determining, at the mobile terminal, whether a portion of the projected route corresponds to an outage event with respect to data being streamed to the mobile terminal; and in response to a determination that the outage event corresponds to the portion of the projected route, causing communication of at least one of a geo-predictive next application data unit and an estimated capacity vector to a streaming server, providing the data being streamed, to cause a modification to a data transmission rate at which data is to be streamed to the mobile terminal, wherein the geo-predictive next application data unit comprises a total buffer space, an amount of data deficit associated with the outage event, and a buffering compensation time, and wherein the estimated capacity vector comprises at least one expected channel capacity and at least one time offset corresponding to said at least one expected channel capacity.