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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2012
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kirankumar Anchan, San Diego, CA (US);
Yih-Hao Lin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark A. Maggenti, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 76/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/0252 (2013.01); H04L 65/4076 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 76/002 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for preemptively establishing a multicast bearer. An embodiment determines whether adding a multicast session to a plurality of multicast bearers will exceed a high bandwidth threshold, requests setup of a new multicast bearer if adding the multicast session will exceed the high bandwidth threshold, and hosts the multicast session on an available one of the plurality of multicast bearers or the new multicast bearer.