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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2013
Applicant:
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Inventors:
John W. Prock, Raymore, MO (US);
Young Zhao, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sreekar Marupaduga, Overland Park, KS (US);
Assignee:
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 28/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/006 (2013.01); H04W 36/00 (2013.01); H04W 28/00 (2013.01); H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01);
Abstract
A base station or other entity in a wireless communication system detects high use of air interface resources and responsively identifies one or more served devices that have reported threshold similar coverage quality for the base station and for an adjacent base station. And the base station applies a limit to allocation of resources for each such identified device.