Patent ID: 9271183
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a wireless network system, wherein the wireless network system includes a base station operating to serve wireless communication devices (WCDs) via one or more scheduled channels and an unscheduled access channel, wherein the base station is configured to allocate available network resources amongst the WCDs by scheduling network traffic over the scheduled channels so as to accommodate respective demands of the WCDs indicated, at least in part, by respective service requests received from the WCDs, the method comprising: receiving a first service request from a particular WCD, wherein the first service request specifies a particular quantity of network resources; responsive to receiving the first service request, making a first determination that a capacity of available network resources on the scheduled channels is insufficient to allocate the particular quantity of network resources to the particular WCD; and responsive to making the first determination, the base station: (i) sending a wait-for-page communication to the particular WCD, wherein the wait-for-page communication causes the particular WCD to, prior to being paged, forgo transmitting to the base station over the access channel for the purpose of initiating a service request specifying a greater quantity of network resources than the particular quantity of network resources, wherein prior to sending the wait-for-page communication, determining a quantity of available network resources on the scheduled channels and wherein the wait-for-page communication includes an indication of the determined quantity of available network resources so as to further cause the particular WCD to, prior to being paged, forgo transmitting to the base station over the access channel for the purpose of initiating a service request specifying a greater quantity of network resources than the determined quantity of available network resources; (ii) storing data indicative of the received service request in a memory; (iii) waiting for the capacity of available network resources on the scheduled channels to increase; and (iv) responsive to waiting, sending a page to the particular WCD.