System and method for reducing dropped calls in a wireless communications network
US6690938B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 6, 1999 |
| Grant date | Feb 10, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 6, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W88/08
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for managing wireless communications system resources. The system includes a first mechanism that determines currently available wireless communications system traffic resources and provides a signal in response thereto. A second mechanism de-allocates wireless communications system supplemental resources and reallocates the supplemental resources as traffic resources in response to the signal. In a specific embodiment, the currently available wireless communications system traffic resources include currently available traffic channels, and the supplemental resources include supplemental channels. The first mechanism includes a mechanism that compares a number of in-use traffic channels with a number of total traffic channels and provides the signal when the difference between the number of total traffic channels and the number of in-use traffic channels is less than a predetermined threshold. The first mechanism further includes a mechanism that monitors when a call handoff request and/or a call origination request is blocked at a base station transceiver subsystem call resource manager and provides the signal when the call is blocked. The second mechanism incl…
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