Patent ID: 11943820
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor of a Wi-Fi access device, which when executed cause the Wi-Fi access device to:
receive from an end device a probe request that includes priority information that indicates an access control class of a priority user and associated priority of Wi-Fi access pertaining to the end device, wherein the access control class is between 10-15 or 11-15 associated with a Long Term Evolution network;
determine that the Wi-Fi access device is in a congested state or a predicted congested state;
determine that the probe request pertains to the priority user based on the priority information;
generate, based on the determination that the probe request pertains to the priority user, a probe response;
transmit to the end device the probe response; and
establish with the end device a Wi-Fi data connection of a pool of reserved Wi-Fi data connections, which was reserved prior to receiving the probe request, for priority users.