Patent ID: 9654377
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for communications within a local area network, said method comprising: determining if data is from a non-vendor device based on whether said data does not contain a vendor specific identifier, wherein a vendor device is associated with said vendor specific identifier; adding a network priority tag to a header of said data and forwarding said data, if said data is destined for a vendor device and said data is from a non-vendor device; removing an existing network priority tag from the header of said data and forwarding said data, when said data is destined for a non- vendor device and said data is determined to be from a vendor device and when said network priority tag exists in said header of said data; and adding a network identifier if said network priority tag does not exist and said data is destined for said vendor device and said data is from said vendor device.