Patent ID: 8798000
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method to manage wireless wide area network bandwidth constraints in a communication network having wired domain access, wireless local area domain access, and wireless wide area domain access, the method comprising: prioritizing client activities of client devices by a serving access point of the client devices, wherein prioritizing includes assigning different prioritized client activities to either a critical-priority wireless local area network or at least one non-critical-priority wireless local area network; detecting that wired domain access is inactive to the serving access point while wireless wide area domain access is active for the serving access point; in response to detecting that the wired domain access is inactive while the wireless wide area domain access is active, the serving access point utilizing an available bandwidth of the wireless wide area domain access to transfer critical-priority client activities in the critical-priority wireless local area network assigned to the wireless wide area domain access; and de-authenticating at least one client device running non-critical-priority client activities on at least one of the non-critical-priority wireless local area networks.