Patent ID: 6690920
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A measuring device for measuring system resources which are used by a communication connection in a telecommunication network,said device comprising: means for receiving a request of allocation of system resources to establish said connection, said request indicating a preferred level of said resources, examining means (1) for examining parameters (BCIE1) indicating said requested resources, and allocating means (3) for allocating, on the basis of the examination by said examining means (1), available resources indicated by parameters (BCIE2) of the telecommunication network to the communication connection, characterized by comparing means (4) for comparing the level of the requested resources (BCIE1) and the level of the resources allocated by the telecommunication network (BCIE2), determining means (5) for determining, on the basis of the comparison by said comparing means (4), whether the level of the resources allocated by the telecommunication network (BCIE2) is lower than the level of requested resources (BCIE2), and outputting means (6) for outputting a result of the determination by said determining means (6), if it is determined, that a lower level is present.