Patent ID: 7468963

Claim:
A method of operating a first wireless transceiver unit which operates in a shared portion of an RF spectrum, with a second wireless transceiver unit operating in the shared portion of the RF spectrum, an arbitration device controlling when the first and second wireless transceiver units can access the shared portion of the RF spectrum and an interface connecting the first transceiver unit to the arbitration device, wherein the first transceiver supports a plurality of connection links, the interface supports a first plurality of interface priority levels and carries a plurality of access requests from the first transceiver to the arbitration device, and each access request is associated with an interface priority level from the first plurality of the interface priority levels, the method comprising: associating a connection link from the plurality of connection links with a transceiver priority level from a second plurality of transceiver priority levels; associating the transceiver priority level of the connection link with a sequence of access requests from the plurality of access requests carried by the interface, wherein the transceiver priority level positively correlates with an average value of interface priority levels of the access requests forming the sequence; and communicating the transceiver priority level of the connection link to the arbitration device sending the sequence of the access requests to the arbitration device.