Patent ID: 8830899
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling data traffic between a plurality of mobile terminals and a mobile network comprising a plurality of cell sites, the method comprising: monitoring cell-site-specific volumes of data traffic in order to detect high-load cell sites among the plurality of cell sites; wherein the monitoring cell-site-specific volumes of data traffic comprises receiving and analyzing event records from network elements of the mobile network, aggregating the received event records per cell site to produce a cell-site-specific usage record for each of the cell sites, and periodically examining the cell-site-specific usage record for each of the detected high-load cell sites, performing a mobile-terminal-specific analysis of data traffic in order to select at least one of the mobile terminals for traffic limitation, and temporarily limiting the data traffic between the mobile network and the selected at least one mobile terminal.