Patent ID: 9729467
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: wirelessly obtaining, by a wireless terminal, one or more access rules relating to a network from a node of the network configured to communicate with one or more wireless terminals over an air-interface, the one or more access rules specifying a rate at which permitted accesses to the network accumulate specified as an amount of permitted accesses per unit of time; and after the one or more access rules are obtained, selectively allowing, by the wireless terminal, a request to access the network upon determining that a number of permitted accesses accumulated according to the rate at which the permitted accesses to the network accumulate is greater than or equal to a predefined number of permitted accesses required for allowing the request to access the network, the access being a wireless access from the wireless terminal to the network, wherein the wireless terminal is a wireless device configured to provide voice and/or data connectivity to a user of the wireless terminal.