Patent ID: 7224679

Claim:
A method of providing improved quality of service in a wireless local area network transmission system, the network comprising at least two devices, the quality of services defined at least in part by data communicated by a first of the devices to other devices in the network through one or more quality of service parameters, the method comprising: initializing a change indicator at the start of a monitoring period; during the monitoring period: monitoring the stored parameters for changes in the stored parameters that define the quality of service; updating the change indicator in response to the monitoring change in the stored parameters that define the quality of service; periodically notifying the other devices in the network of the change indicator, the other devices operable to update locally stored quality of service parameters in response to detecting a change in the change indicator, said updating locally stored quality of service parameters to be preformed for no longer than a predefined time period after the reception of the new change indicator.