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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2010
Chaz Immendorf, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Eamonn Gormley, Redmond, WA (US);
Chaz Immendorf, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Eamonn Gormley, Redmond, WA (US);
Eden Rock Communications, LLC, Bothell, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are described for reducing congestion in a wireless network. A wireless base station becomes congested when substantially all of the available base station airlink resources are being used during a period of time. It is useful, however, to distinguish between periods of congestion with few users and periods where a larger number of users are using the base station. When there are few users a congestion situation is not necessarily a problem, while it is more likely that users' quality of experience and quality of service suffers as the number of users increases. This system and method determines when a base station is congested and implements a congestion prime management scenario when the number of active users is above an activity threshold.