Method and base station for the optimized transmission of audio-visual content

Abstract

A method for transmitting audiovisual content available on a content server (10) to a set of communication terminals (30-1, 30-2, 30-3) via a mobile cellular telecommunications network, comprising: detection by a base station (20) that at least two communication terminals served by said base station are consuming the same audiovisual content; transmission of a request for said audiovisual content by said base station to said content server; and broadcasting said audiovisual content to said at least two communication terminals. (See Figure 2 for abbreviations.)