Patent ID: 9374289
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: setting, by one or more servers, a first network threshold level for determining network congestion in a network; detecting, by the one or more servers, an increase in network congestion at a base station above the first network threshold level; selecting, by the one or more servers, one or more subscribers accessing the network via the base station, wherein the one or more subscribers are selected based on usage categories associated with the one or more subscribers, wherein the usage categories correspond to whether network usage, associated with each subscriber of the one or more subscribers, exceeds a subscriber threshold level, wherein the subscriber threshold level is based on subscriber information and policy information associated with each subscriber, wherein the subscriber information is determined by: wherein the policy information is based on whether each subscriber has subscribed to a service that includes a quality of service guarantee and based on a minimum amount of bandwidth reserved for each subscriber during a previous period of network usage associated with each subscriber; rate limiting, by the one or more servers, network traffic associated with the one or more subscribers, wherein the rate limiting includes sending a message to a packet data network gateway indicating that the network traffic associated with the one or more subscribers is to be rate limited; detecting, by the one or more servers, a decrease in network congestion at the base station below a second network threshold level; and removing the rate limiting, by the one or more servers, on the one or more subscribers accessing the network via the base station.