Patent ID: 11956836
Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer readable medium in a wireless network device, the non-transitory computer readable medium encoding instructions that, as a result of execution by control circuitry, cause the control circuitry to:
designate a first priority status for a first service set identifier that is intended for use with a first class of users, and a second priority status for a second service set identifier that is intended for use with a second class of users, wherein the first class of users has a higher priority than the second class of users;
establish a first wireless connection with a first device according to an 802.11ax protocol, the first wireless connection associated with the first service set identifier;
establish a second wireless connection with a second device, the second wireless connection associated with the second service set identifier;
allocate a first set of resource units to the first wireless connection as a result of the first priority status, the first set of resource units allocated based on the 802.11ax protocol, wherein the wireless network device communicates over a frequency bandwidth that is divided into a plurality of channels, wherein each channel is divided into a plurality of subchannels, wherein each resource unit corresponds to a sub-channel of one of the channels; and
restrict allocation of resource units to the second wireless connection by virtue of the second wireless connection being associated with the second class of users.