Patent ID: 9497793
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A base station for coordinating communication of data packets between a user device and an application server, the base station comprising: a memory; and a computer processor operatively coupled to the memory, to a radio transmitter, and to a radio receiver, the computer processor being configured to: detect the application type of a data packet; determine an application specific inactivity time based on the detected application type and at least one channel condition associated with a communication link with the user device, wherein the computer processor is configured to assign a first inactivity time to a data packet having a first application type, and assign a second inactivity time to a data packet having a second application type, wherein the first inactivity time is different than the second inactivity time, and wherein the first application type is different than the second application type; and transition the user device to an idle state based on a comparison of the determined application specific inactivity time and an application specific threshold inactivity time.