Patent ID: 7911997

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing, by a station, a wireless connection with a first wireless local area network (WLAN) router; transmitting, by the station, a resource request to a second WLAN router requesting allocation of a quality of service (QoS) resource; receiving, by the station, a resource response from the second WLAN router indicating a nonallocation of the QoS resource; transitioning, by the station, the wireless connection from the first WLAN router to the second WLAN router notwithstanding said nonallocation of the QoS resource, wherein said transitioning comprises transmitting a re-association request to the second WLAN router, and receiving a successful re-association response from the second WLAN router; and receiving, by the station, a policy advertisement from the second WLAN router indicating whether the station must transmit the resource request prior to transmitting the re-association request or whether the station has the option to transmit the resource request prior to transmitting the re-association request or contemporaneously with the re-association request.