Patent ID: 9137286
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of classifying, at a wireless access point (AP), streaming media data, the method comprising: identifying, at the wireless AP, one or more media servers; in response to identifying the one or more media servers, adding, at the wireless AP, the one or more media servers to a list of media servers maintained at the wireless AP; determining, at the wireless AP, that one or more messages sent by one or more clients are sent to a first media server included on the list of media servers; in response to determining that the one or more messages sent by the one or more clients are sent to the first media server included on the list of media servers, adding, at the wireless AP, the one or more clients to a list of clients that is (i) maintained at the wireless AP and (ii) associated with the first media server; determining, at the wireless AP, that a request for streaming media is sent to the first media server included on the list of media servers by a first client included on the list of clients associated with the first media server; in response to determining that the request for streaming media is sent to the first media server included on the list of media servers by the first client included on the list of clients, utilizing, at the wireless AP, a rule to determine whether subsequent traffic between the first media server included on the list of media servers and the first client included on the list of clients is streaming media traffic; and classifying, at the wireless AP, data packets within the subsequent traffic as high priority when the data packets satisfy the rule.