Patent ID: 8873395

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, using a wireless serving system (WSS), a call request for a user equipment (UE) device served by the WSS; determining, using the WSS, that resources to assign to the UE device to grant the call request are unavailable; determining, using the WSS, a quality of service (QoS) priority value for the call request; selecting, using the WSS based on the QoS priority value, a first maximum wait time the WSS will wait before blocking the call request if resources to assign to the UE device to grant the call request remain unavailable during the first maximum wait time; and provisioning, using the WSS, resources to the UE device to grant the call request if resources to grant the call request become available prior to the WSS waiting the first maximum wait time after receiving the call request, otherwise, if resources to grant the call request are not available prior to the WSS waiting the first maximum wait time after receiving the call request, then the WSS blocking the call request.