Patent ID: 7394800
Filing Date: 2008-07-01
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: reservation logic designed to exercise a reservation with an access point to access a network during a point in time, including logic designed to generate and send a request to the access point to exercise the reservation, with the request having a response to a challenge associated with the reservation earlier posted by the access point when the reservation was earlier made with the access point; wherein the reservation logic further comprises logic designed to generate a reservation request for the reservation and submit the reservation request to the access point via another access point, or directly to the access point, the another access point facilitating the apparatus in accessing the network at the time of submission of the reservation request, and to generate additional one or more reservation requests to make reservation or reservation with one or more additional access points to access the network during the point in time, and to cause the reservation or reservations with the one or more additional access points to be cancelled when the reservation with the access point is exercised.