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
OG exemplary drawing
 
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.