Patent ID: 8107390

Claim:
A method comprising: obtaining multiple data messages, each data message comprising data associated with a process system and having a data message type comprising one of: a publish message type, an alert message type, and a management message type; mapping each of the data messages to one of multiple classifications based on the data message type of that data message; and wirelessly transmitting the data messages, wherein a Quality of Service (QoS) associated with the transmission of each data message is based on the classification of that data message; wherein mapping each of the data messages comprises mapping each data message of the publish message type to an Unsolicited Grant Service (UGS) class, mapping each data message of the alert message type to a real-time Polling Service (rtPS) class, and mapping each data message of the management message type to a Best Effort (BE) or non-real-time Polling Service (nrtPS) class.