Patent ID: 8761773

Claim:
A method, comprising: in response to determining that a strength of a signal received from a first wireless device satisfies a rescue handover criterion, determining, by a system comprising a processor, that a first wireless communication session associated with the first wireless device is to be transferred from a first cellular base station device to a second cellular base station device to prevent an interruption of the first wireless communication session; in response to the determining that the first wireless communication session is to be transferred, determining, by the system, timing data associated with a time at which the first wireless communication session was previously assigned to a divided timeslot having a first rate that has been adjusted to accommodate the first wireless communication session; and in response to determining that the timing data satisfies a defined timing criterion and determining that timeslots of a frequency channel employed by the second cellular base station device are occupied, modifying, by the system, a rate-based parameter of a timeslot of the timeslots that is assigned to a second wireless communication session associated with a second wireless device coupled to the second cellular base station device to facilitate a transmission of data associated with the first wireless communication session and the second wireless communication session via the timeslot, wherein the rate-based parameter controls a second rate of the timeslot.