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Method and system for managing real-time bandwidth in a wireless network

  • US 6,978,144 B1
  • Filed: 04/19/2001
  • Issued: 12/20/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for managing real-time bandwidth requests in a wireless network, comprising:

  • receiving a plurality of bandwidth requests each for a connection to a cell of a wireless network, each request selected from the group consisting of a call admission request, an additional bandwidth request, and a handoff request, each received request including subscription level information comprising a class of service (CoS);

    determining a priority associated with the connection based on the subscription level information;

    queuing each of the requests in one of a plurality of queues corresponding to the CoS for the connection based on the subscription level information;

    clearing from the queues any request reaching a delay threshold; and

    processing the received requests in the queues by queue beginning with a queue corresponding to a highest priority CoS and in a descending order of CoS priority to provide bandwidth to corresponding connections until available bandwidth is exhausted.

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