Patent ID: 9042870
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for addressing load capacity, comprising: identifying that a first network element is operating at a threshold capacity; receiving a communication from a second network element, the communication intended for the first network element; performing an operation that informs the second network element at least one of (i) that the first network element is operating at a threshold capacity and (ii) that the communication cannot be delivered to the first network element while the first network element is operating at the threshold capacity, the operation including requesting the second network element to provide user preferences such that the second network element is informed that the first network element is operating at the threshold capacity upon receiving the request, and receiving the user preferences from the second network element such that the user preferences are stored at the first network element, the user preferences being input to the second network element by a user of the second network element; sending, if the first network element changes from operating at the threshold capacity to operating at below the threshold capacity, a notification to the second network element that the communication is deliverable via the first network element; and delivering, by the first network element, the communication if the second network element acknowledges the notification.