Patent ID: 9247426
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A telecommunications network configured for providing access to a plurality of terminals, each terminal of the plurality comprising a unique identifier for accessing the telecommunications network, wherein the telecommunications network comprises: a register configured for storing the unique identifier of at least one terminal in combination with at least one grant access time interval, during which access to the telecommunications network for the at least one terminal is permitted; an access request receiver configured for receiving an access request and determining the unique identifier for accessing the telecommunications network from the at least one terminal; a serving controller entity configured for reducing network resource consumption; one or more processors; and memory storing processor instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out operations including: an access operation for denying access to the telecommunications network for the at least one terminal if the access request is received outside of the grant access time interval, wherein each terminal operates one or more machine-to-machine applications, and wherein the grant access time interval for each terminal is a variable time interval x-y that is scheduled depending on network load experienced by, or expected for, the telecommunications network, access to the telecommunications network being granted to the each terminal if the network load is below, or is expected to be below, a particular threshold.