Patent ID: 7496366

Claim:
A method to facilitate system capacity control in a wireless communication system with respect to a mobile to mobile communication by adjusting quality of service for at least one leg of the mobile to mobile communication comprising: providing information regarding at least one of: power requirements for each mobile station as comprise the mobile to mobile communication; a number of mobile stations as comprise communication targets in the mobile to mobile communication; expected battery life for at least one mobile station as comprises the mobile to mobile communication; determining which leg of the mobile to mobile communication exhibits better radio frequency communication conditions; determining whether to modify the quality of service for at least one leg of the mobile to mobile communication by at least one of: increasing the quality of service for the leg that exhibits at least one of: better radio frequency communication conditions than other legs in the mobile to mobile communication; serving as a source leg in a mobile to mobile communication serving more than a threshold number of communication targets; serving as a target leg and a source of the mobile to mobile communication has less than a threshold amount of battery life remaining; and decreasing the quality of service for the leg that exhibits at least one of: worse radio frequency communication conditions than other legs in the mobile to mobile communication; serving as a target leg in a mobile to mobile communication serving more than a threshold number of communication targets; serving as a communication source leg in a mobile to mobile communication where a source of the mobile to mobile communication has less than a threshold amount of battery life remaining; as a function, at least in part, of the information.