Patent ID: 9742691
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a storage device storing a plurality of stored reservations for a hospitality establishment; wherein each of the stored reservations corresponds to a respective event to be held at the hospitality establishment, a particular reservation of the stored reservations includes a registered device setting for affecting behavior of a local area network at the hospitality establishment toward a user device having a specified device identifier, and the registered device setting specifies that the user device having the specified device identifier is to have a custom bandwidth limit for accessing an external network during the particular reservation; a bandwidth manager coupled between the local area network and the external network, the bandwidth manager controlling an amount of bandwidth provided to user devices on the local area network of the hospitality establishment while the user devices are accessing the external network; a clock chip tracking time; and a system controller coupled to the local area network and having access to the storage device and the clock chip; wherein the system controller is operable to automatically configure the bandwidth manager via the local area network when a start time of the particular reservation is reached to thereby cause the bandwidth manager to limit a bandwidth of network traffic associated with the specified device identifier that is crossing between the local area network and the external network according to the custom bandwidth limit; and the system controller is operable to automatically configure the bandwidth manager when an end time of the particular reservation is reached to thereby cause the bandwidth manager to stop limiting the bandwidth of network traffic associated with the specified device identifier according to the custom bandwidth limit.