Patent ID: 8254920
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, performed by a radio access network (RAN) that provides a preferred wireless coverage area to serve wireless communications devices (WCDs), wherein wireless coverage areas are either preferred or non-preferred, and wherein the RAN has access to a table that maps WCD identifiers to respective handoff data associated with each respective WCD identifier, the method comprising: the RAN determining a first WCD identifier of a first WCD served by the preferred wireless coverage area; the RAN looking up the determined first WCD identifier in the table; and based on the handoff data that is stored in the table, the RAN determining that, in the past, the first WCD has been handed off from the preferred wireless coverage area to any one of the group of one or more non-preferred wireless coverage areas; and in response to determining that, in the past, the first WCD has been handed off from the preferred wireless coverage area to any one of the group of one or more non-preferred wireless coverage areas, the RAN granting the first WCD an increased service quality.