Patent ID: 8005055

Claim:
A method for use in an access point (AP), the method comprising: generating a service load indicator that includes: a best effort (BE) delay field that indicates a representation of: an average access delay for BE frames transmitted during a measurement window, that a BE service is unavailable, or that the average access delay for BE frames is not available; a background (BK) delay field that indicates a representation of: an average access delay for BK frames transmitted during the measurement window, that a BK service is unavailable, or that the average access delay for BK frames is not available; a video (VI) delay field that indicates a representation of: an average access delay for VI frames transmitted during the measurement window, that a VI service is unavailable, or that the average access delay for VI frames is not available; and a voice (VO) delay field that indicates a representation of: an average access delay for VO frames transmitted during the measurement window that a VO service is unavailable, or that the average access delay for VO frames is not available; and transmitting the service load indicator as part of a single message.