Patent ID: 8817684

Claim:
A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising: tracking, by one or more computing devices, a quantity of videos that are being streamed, over a wireless interface, of a wireless network and to mobile devices, at any particular time; determining, by the one or more computing devices, based on the tracked quantity of videos, a number of requests for the one or more of the videos, and a quantity of cells in the wireless network, whether to dedicate a radio channel, of at least one cell in the wireless network, to streaming a first of the videos; directing, in response to the determination, a base station corresponding to the at least one cell in the wireless network to dedicate the radio channel to stream the first video; and transmitting, by the one or more computing devices and in response to a request, from a mobile device, for the first video, an identification of the dedicated radio channel so that the mobile device can receive the first video as a streaming video over the dedicated radio channel.