Patent ID: 7764648

Claim:
A method for arbitrating use of wireless medium for transmission of wireless signals within a selected local geographic region, the selected local geographic region comprising a first set of a plurality of wireless devices to be allowed to transmit wireless signals and a second set of one or more wireless devices to be substantially restricted from transmitting wireless signals, the method comprising: providing identity information associated with the first set of the plurality of wireless devices; and transmitting over a wireless medium at least one packet for each of the plurality of wireless devices in the first set, the at least one packet for the each of the wireless devices including an identity information, including an address, associated with that wireless device, that wireless device being a recipient of the one packet on the wireless medium, and a selected value in a duration field of the one packet, the selected value being associated with a portion of time for which that wireless device is to be allowed to transmit wireless signals within the selected local geographic region while restricting at least the wireless devices in the second set from transmitting wireless signals.