Patent ID: 7881203

Claim:
A terminal regulation management device for regulating incoming/outgoing calls of radio terminals, comprising: a priority information memory to store, individually for each base station included in a group of base stations, priority information indicating priority levels of subscribers in processing incoming/outgoing calls, and including communication counts that indicate how many times the subscribers have communicated using the respective radio terminals; a communication information receiver to receive communication information about communications of the radio terminals from the base stations or from a radio network controller for controlling the base stations; a priority decision unit to update the priority information stored in the priority information memory by updating the communication counts included therein, based on the received communication information, and determining the priority levels of the subscribers in accordance with the updated communication counts; and a priority information transmitter to transmit the priority information stored in the priority information memory to the base stations, so as to cause the receiving base stations to select, in descending order of the priority levels indicated by the priority information received from the priority information transmitter, as many subscribers as determined according to a network congestion level and to regulate incoming/outgoing calls of the radio terminals associated with the selected subscribers.