Patent ID: 9414400
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of scheduling a radio resource in an access point of a wireless local area network, at least one categorization rule being set in the wireless local area network, and at least one access group being set for a plurality of non-access-point stations served by the access point according to each of the at least one categorization rule, the method comprising: sending at least one categorization message to at least one of a plurality of stations, each categorization message including information about an access group from a plurality of access groups which are set in the wireless local area network according to the at least one categorization rule, and the information about the access group including first information, second information and third information, the first information indicating the categorization rule of the access group, the second information indicating an access group label of the access group, and the third information indicating a status code of the access group; sending a clear-to-send frame to the plurality of stations to indicate the radio resource allocated to the access group be protected among the plurality of access groups and changing at least one of the at least one categorization rule and the corresponding access group according to a network condition or a quality-of-service requirement of the access group to be protected.