Patent 7944839 was granted and assigned to British Telecommunications Public Limited Company on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Wireless resource control is used in a wireless user terminal. A user utility function is stored which gives a user utility value for the user terminal as a function of one or more wireless resources. Price per unit of each wireless resource usage is also stored. An indication of the price per unit of wireless resource usage is received over a wireless link from another wireless terminal. A rate of wireless resource usage is calculated using the indicated price per unit of wireless resource usage as an input to the user utility function such that the user utility value is maximized.