Patent ID: 9674374
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: determining, by at least one computing device, a number of user devices that can access data services in a wireless network via each of a plurality of sectors for each of a plurality of periods of time based on capacity in the wireless network; storing, by the at least one computing device, information identifying the determined number of user devices for each of the plurality of sectors for each of the plurality of periods of time; receiving a request from a first user device for access to data services during a first one of the plurality of periods of time, wherein the first user device is associated with a first sector and the first user device is associated with a first user having a data plan; accessing the stored information to determine whether to grant the request; providing access to the data services via the wireless network to the first user device during the first period of time, in response to determining to grant the request; and excluding data usage by the first user device during the first period of time from being applied against a data limit associated with the first user's data plan.