Patent ID: 7123922

Claim:
A wireless infrastructure apparatus, the apparatus determining to which users, from among a plurality of users, access is to be provided, such access being provided at any one time to a group of users that includes less than all of the plurality of users, such access being provided to the plurality of users over a plurality of channels, each of the plurality of channels being associated with one of the users and providing communication between the associated user and a common transmitting station, the apparatus comprising: a) means for determining for each channel, a value representing an amount of data transmitted on the channel over a predetermined amount of time; b) means for receiving a value representing a highest data rate at which each channel can currently receive data; c) means for determining, for each channel, a ratio of the received value representing the highest data rate, with respect to the value representing the amount of data transmitted; and d) means for transmitting over the channel associated with the highest ratio.