Patent ID: 8582492

Claim:
A method of operating a first wireless terminal in a system including a first wireless communications link from a second wireless terminal to a third wireless terminal, said first communications link having a higher priority than a second communications link from a fourth wireless terminal to said first wireless terminal, the method comprising: receiving a signal from the second wireless terminal; receiving a transmission request from the fourth wireless terminal, the transmission request indicating an intent of the fourth wireless terminal to transmit data to the first wireless terminal; estimating the quality of the second communications link from the signal received from the second wireless terminal and the transmission request received from the fourth wireless terminal; dynamically generating a yielding threshold based on at least one of: i) historic link quality information corresponding to the second communications link; or ii) quality of service information corresponding to the second communications link; and yielding when the estimated quality of the second communications link does not exceed the dynamically generated yielding threshold, wherein the yielding comprises a decision to not have the fourth wireless terminal transmit the data to the first wireless terminal.