Patent ID: 9307032
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A wireless access node configured to extend a media session in a wireless network, comprising: a communication interface exchanges wireless communications with a user equipment (UE); a storage system stores a UE fail state corresponding to the UE of a current media session and store an extended dormancy time period; a processing system coupled to the communication interface and to the storage system, with the processing system determines if a media session initiation is completed, if the media session initiation is completed, then the processing system compares a number of failed attempts to a predetermined session attempts limit and compare an elapsed time of the failed attempts to a predetermined session fail time period, if the number of failed attempts exceeds the predetermined session attempts limit and if the elapsed time of the failed attempts is less than the predetermined session fail time period, then the processing system sets the UE fail state to true obtain the UE fail state, if the UE fail state is true, then the processing system loads the extended dormancy time period into a dormancy timer corresponding to the UE, and if the dormancy timer expires, then the processing system maintains one or both of a traffic channel and a signaling channel between the wireless access node and the UE wherein the signaling channel exchanges signals with the wireless network to establish a connection and the traffic channel exchanges communications with the wireless network for the media session.