Patent ID: 8538435

Claim:
A networked computing system for determining the radio channel capacities of regional network base stations to affect service handovers, comprising: a plurality of network base stations; a plurality of user equipment; at least one network resource controller; and a data communications network facilitating data communications amongst the plurality of network base stations, the plurality of user equipment, and the at least one network resource controller, wherein the network resource controller is configured to: determine a current radio channel available capacity based on a user load associated with regional user equipment; forecast maximum radio channel capacity based on the current radio channel available capacity; and determine a number of additional user equipment a network base station can support based on the forecasted maximum radio channel capacity, wherein the user load associated with the regional user equipment is related to network resource consumption habits of an average network user that a network base station services; wherein the network resource controller is further configured to determine a handover threshold utilizing the forecast maximum radio channel capacity; and wherein when a first network base station's number of users exceeds the handover threshold, at least one user equipment that the first network base station services, is handed over to a second network base station with better service capacity.