Patent ID: 9301280
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: establishing, by a network device, a first channel and a second channel with a user device, the first and second channels being different channels of a network layer of an Open Systems Interconnect (“OSI”) model, the first channel being used to transmit time-sensitive traffic; receiving, by the network device, traffic associated with the user device via a third channel or a fourth channel, the third channel being associated with time-sensitive traffic and the fourth channel being associated with less time-sensitive traffic than traffic associated with the third channel; determining, by the network device, a type of service associated with the traffic; determining, by the network device, based on whether the traffic associated with the user device was received via the third channel or the fourth channel, and based on the type of service associated with the traffic, whether the traffic, associated with the user device, is time-sensitive traffic; selecting, by the network device and based on determining whether the traffic is time-sensitive traffic, one of the first channel or the second channel, the selecting including: