Patent ID: 7855958
Filing Date: 2010-12-21
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of adapting resource allocations to radio bearer channels in a wireless telecommunications network by determining priorities of radio bearer channels in a wireless telecommunications network that offers various predetermined levels of quality of service, and adapting resource allocations to radio bearer channels dependent on the priority ratings; said determining of said priorities being by in a network controller: determining a numerical value representing a priority rating to be applied to a radio bearer channel having at least two different quality of service attributes by: assigning corresponding numerical values to said at least two quality of service attributes of the bearer channel, and processing the values to provide the priority rating for the bearer channel, in which the network is a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network and one of the attributes is traffic class, the traffic class being selectable from Conversational, Streaming, Interactive (traffic handling priority=1), Interactive (traffic handling priority=2), Interactive (traffic handling priority=3), and Background traffic class, the Conversational traffic class being assigned a value of 1, the Streaming traffic class being assigned a value of 2, the Interactive (traffic handling priority−1) traffic class being assigned a value of 3, the Interactive (traffic handling priority−2) traffic class being assigned a value of 4, the Interactive (traffic handling priority−3) traffic class being assigned a value of 5, and the Background traffic class being assigned a value of 6.