Patent ID: 9301245
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of accessing a network for wireless communications, the method comprising: transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a service request for a communication service, wherein the service request comprises at least one of a requested data rate term or a requested reliability term; receiving, by the UE, a plurality of offers in response to the service request, each offer associated with a communication service connection to a network access point, wherein each offer comprises a price a user would pay for the communication service connection; estimating, by the UE and for each offer of the plurality of offers, a transmission power requirement including associated battery life loss of the UE for accepting the offer; converting, by the UE, each estimated transmission power requirement to an equivalent price term; and selecting, by the UE, one of the offers based on the price the user would pay for each of the respective communication service connections and the equivalent price term.