| US 7,529,226 B2 | ||
| Bearer setup for a multimedia service | ||
| Janne Peisa, Espoo (Finland); Mats Sågfors, Kyrkslätt (Finland); Johan Torsner, Esbo (Finland); and Stefan Wager, Esbo (Finland) | ||
| Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (PUBL), Stockholm (Sweden) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/570,683 PCT Filed Aug. 24, 2004, PCT No. PCT/EP2004/051889 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Dec. 07, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/027481, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 24, 2005. |
||
| Claims priority of application No. 0321424.4 (GB), filed on Sep. 12, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0064676 A1, Mar. 22, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—352 [370/401] | 17 Claims |

| 1. A method of controlling the establishment of a packet switched bearer or bearers for carrying multimedia information between
two or more user terminals during a circuit switched call, the method comprising:
at setup of or during the circuit switched call, predicting at at least one of the user terminals the likelihood that multimedia
information will be exchanged between the user terminals during the circuit switched call based upon properties stored at
that terminal for the or each other user or user terminal; and
automatically establishing said bearer or not or taking at least preliminary steps required to establish said bearer, based
upon the prediction.
|