Patent ID: 11864221
Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A device, comprising:
a processing system including a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
assigning a first value to a first user equipment associated with a first user, wherein the first value is associated with a priority class for the first user equipment, and wherein the first value is representative of a priority to resources of a network;
determining that a first amount of network traffic for the network exceeds a threshold;
increasing the priority class for the first user equipment responsive to the determining that the first amount of the network traffic for the network exceeds the threshold, by assigning a second value to the first user equipment that is higher than the first value, wherein the second value provides the first user equipment with greater access to the resources of the network than the first value;
subsequent to the assigning of the second value to the first user equipment, modifying the priority class for the first user equipment by assigning a third value to the first user equipment; and
determining that a threshold amount of time has elapsed from the assigning of the second value to the first user equipment, wherein the assigning of the third value to the first user equipment is responsive to the determining that the threshold amount of the time has elapsed from the assigning of the second value to the first user equipment.