Patent ID: 8078172

Claim:
A method for reserving a cellular resource, comprising: determining a change in location for a preferred cellular device; extrapolating the change in location for the preferred cellular device into a future time period to determine a first estimated movement path to second cell and a second estimated movement path to a third cell for the preferred cellular device, the first estimated path and the second estimated movement path comprising different potential paths of the preferred cellular device; determining a first error value indicating whether the first estimated movement path is highly unlikely due to geographic limitations associated with the first estimated movement path; determining a first likelihood value that the preferred cellular device traverses the second cell based on the first error value of the first estimated movement path; determining a second error value indicating whether the second estimated movement path is highly unlikely due to geographic limitations associated with the second estimated movement path; determining a second likelihood value that the preferred cellular device traverses the third cell based on the second error value of the second estimated movement path; comparing the first likelihood value and the second likelihood value; upon comparing the first likelihood value and the second likelihood value, predicting that the preferred cellular device will be handed off from the first cell to the second cell if the first likelihood that the preferred cellular device traverses the second cell is greater than the second likelihood that the preferred cellular device traverses the third cell; upon comparing the first likelihood value and the second likelihood value, predicting that the preferred cellular device will be handed off from the first cell to the third cell if the second likelihood that the preferred cellular device traverses the third cell is greater than the first likelihood that the preferred cellular device traverses the second cell; and in response to predicting that the preferred cellular device will be handed off from the first cell to the second cell, reserving an amount of a cellular resource in the second cell for the preferred cellular device, whereby reserving the amount of the cellular resource for the preferred cellular device makes the amount of the cellular resource available for the preferred cellular device and unavailable for other cellular devices.