Patent ID: 8346270

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at an access network providing a first wireless link configured according to a first protocol, from one or more of a group of hybrid access terminals assigned to the same given control-channel cycles of the first wireless link, one or more reports of one or more missed tuneaways from the first wireless link to a second wireless link configured according to a second protocol; based on the received one or more reports, determining that the group of hybrid access terminals has missed a threshold extent of tuneaways from the first wireless link to the second wireless link; and in response to determining that the group of hybrid access terminals has missed the threshold extent of tuneaways, deciding to reduce an amount of control-channel data to send on the first wireless link during the given control-channel cycles and then beginning to send a reduced amount of control-channel data on the first wireless link during the given control-channel cycles.