Patent ID: 9307458
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining, at a wireless communication device (WCD), that the WCD has bearer traffic queued for transmission to a radio access network (RAN), wherein the WCD is configured to transmit the queued bearer traffic and neighbor reports over a reverse-direction channel of the RAN, wherein the neighbor reports contain information related to wireless coverage areas; determining one or more characteristics of the queued bearer traffic, wherein determining the one or more characteristics of the queued bearer traffic comprises determining that a queue length of the bearer traffic exceeds a queue length threshold; scheduling the neighbor reports to be transmitted over the reverse-direction channel at a particular rate, wherein the particular rate is based on the one or more characteristics of the queued bearer traffic; and transmitting the neighbor reports over the reverse-direction channel at the particular rate, wherein the WCD is configured by default to transmit the neighbor reports at a default rate, and wherein the particular rate is less than the default rate and is based on the queue length of the bearer traffic exceeding the queue length threshold.