Patent ID: 9565590
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of controlling a mobile terminal comprising: receiving, at a control system within a mobile terminal, an indication of a bandwidth available to a modem of the mobile terminal; determining, at the control system, a maximum number of active connections for the modem of the mobile terminal; determining, at the control system, a current number of active connections at the modem of the mobile terminal; receiving, at the control system, from an application on the mobile terminal, a request to open one or more new active connections from the modem to a remote network; comparing, at the control system, the maximum number of active connections for the modem of the mobile terminal, to the current number of active connections plus the request to open the one or more new active connections; and limiting at the modem of the mobile terminal, a total number of active connections to no more than the maximum number of active connections.