Patent ID: 8891438

Claim:
A packet-data network (PDN) configured for RAN-agnostic multimedia content distribution, the PDN configured to: receive QoS information for available radio links from a first set and a second set of separate radio links from two or more radio-access networks (RANs) wherein the first set of separate radio links include a first and a second separate radio link for providing communication between the PDN and the two or more RANs and wherein the second set of separate radio links include a first and a second separate radio link for providing communication between the one or more RANs and the user terminal; determine which of the available radio links from the first and second set of separate radio links meet a quality-of-service (QoS) requirements for a single transmit service flow destined fbr the user terminal ; and distribute interne-protocol (IP) packets of the single transmit service flow to two or more radio-access networks (RANs) via the first set of separate radio links for subsequent transmission to the user terminal for combining by the user terminal using the second set of separate radio links when the first and second set of separate radio links meet OoS requirements of the single transmit service flow.