Patent ID: 6920119

Claim:
A method for allocating at least one shared radio resource within a communication system including at least one base station adapted to manage data service access requests, the method comprising: a) determining whether a number of existing data service access requests exceeds the number of shared radio resources; b) servicing each of the existing data service access requests on a first-in-highest-priority basis when the number of existing data service access requests does not exceed the number of shared radio resources; c) assigning a priority value to each of the existing data service access requests when the number of existing data service access requests exceeds the number of shared radio resources; d) servicing each of the existing data service access requests based on the respective priority values assigned thereto; and e) adjusting the priority value assigned to each of the existing data service access requests when a new data service access request is received by adjusting a frame count value for an existing data service access request according to the equation FC adj =FC−B, where FC adj is an adjusted frame count value for the existing data service access request, FC is a present frame count value for the existing data service access request, and B is an average of the frame count values for each of the existing data service access requests.