Patent ID: 8695047

Claim:
A method for protecting quality of video streams, wherein the method is implemented by a wireless transceiver, wherein the wireless transceiver comprises a transmit queue indicating video stream data to be transmitted to one or more clients, the method comprising: transmitting a plurality of video streams in a wireless manner; determining that a size of the transmit queue is above a first threshold; differentiating the plurality of video streams, wherein said differentiating comprises selecting a video stream to penalize in order to protect quality of other video streams of the plurality of video streams; imposing a scheduling penalty on the selected video stream based on determining that the size of the transmit queue is above the first threshold and based on said differentiating the plurality of video streams, wherein said differentiating further comprises: determining that the selected video stream has a lowest goodput of the plurality of video streams; wherein selecting the video stream to penalize is based on determining that the selected video stream has the lowest goodput of the plurality of video streams.