Patent ID: 8861348

Claim:
A method, comprising: identifying, with a mobile device, an access class of a plurality of access classes to access a wireless network, the identified access class having an access service class of 0; determining a persistence value of the identified access class, wherein the persistence value is determined based on a persistence formula, wherein the persistence formula is using a persistence scaling factor, wherein the persistence scaling factor is using a scaling function to scale the value from the persistence formula, and wherein the persistence scaling factor is based at least in part on a level of usage of at least one access channel of the wireless network, and wherein higher levels of usage correspond to higher values produced by the scaling function and lower levels of usage correspond to lower values produced by the scaling function; and using the determined persistence value of the identified access class to enable the access to the wireless network, wherein the determined persistence value of the identified access class is a value other than 1.