Patent ID: 8787283

Claim:
A method for multimedia communication, the method comprising: in a multi-protocol premises-based communication network comprising a wired network operating in accordance with a wired network communication protocol comprising a multimedia over cable alliance (MoCA) standard and a wireless network operating in accordance with a wireless network communication protocol comprising an IEEE 802.11x standard that comprises one or more of 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, and 802.11ac: communicating, over the wireless network operating in accordance with said IEEE 802.11x standard, a reservation request for wired network bandwidth; communicating over the wired network operating in accordance with said MoCA standard, a second reservation request for bandwidth on the wired network, where the reservation request and the second reservation request are redundant and wherein said communicating a reservation request over the wireless network decreases a latency of being allocated bandwidth on said wired network relative to a reservation request for bandwidth communicated over the wired network; receiving, via the wireless network, an allocation of wired network bandwidth; and communicating, over only the wired network, using the received allocation of wired network bandwidth.