Patent ID: 8274908

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by an element of a first station, header data and payload data from a networking application, wherein the payload data is to be transmitted in a packet to a second station via a wireless transmitter of the first station, and wherein the header data specifies that the packet is associated with a first quality of service (QoS) category; analyzing, by the first station, at least one of the header data or the payload data and at least one of an arrival rate of packets of the networking application received by the first station and an egress rate of packets of the networking application transmitted from the first station to the second station; and setting, by the first station, at least one bit of the header data based on the analyzing, wherein the setting is to mark the packet and associate the packet with a second QoS category, wherein the priority of the second QoS category is higher than the priority of the first QoS category.