Patent ID: 9603146
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of managing data buffering in a wireless communication system, wherein the wireless communication system comprises a base station, the method comprising: detecting transmission of data to a served wireless communication device (WCD) at a rate exceeding a defined rate cap; based at least on the predicted duration T, increasing the threshold fill level to help defer the buffer reaching the threshold fill level, wherein increasing the buffer-fullness threshold based at least in part on the predicted duration T comprises increasing the buffer-fullness threshold by an extent that is inversely proportional to the predicted duration T, wherein the base station is configured to respond to the buffer reaching the threshold fill level by increasing air interface resources used for serving the WCD, whereby increasing the threshold fill level thus helps defer increasing air interface resources used for serving the WCD.