Patent ID: 9717014
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A traffic management system for managing communication traffic on wireless local area networks (WLAN)s each including a wireless access point (WAP) supporting wireless communications with associated stations on a selected one of a plurality of communication channels, and the traffic management system comprising: a traffic aggregator to aggregate traffic management parameters from neighboring ones of the WLANs which share the selected communication channel with one another and to determine if available airtime for communication traffic on the neighboring ones of the WLANs falls below a threshold level; a traffic prioritizer coupled to the traffic aggregator and responsive to a determination by the traffic aggregator of available airtime below the threshold level, to prioritize communication traffic on the neighboring ones of the WLANs using the aggregated traffic management parameters; thereby avoiding impediments to high priority communication traffic on a one of the neighboring networks resulting from a lack of prioritization coordination with an other of the neighboring networks.