Patent ID: 8854966

Claim:
A method for allocating a collective bandwidth of a plurality of wireless access points, the method comprising: at a first wireless access point of the plurality of wireless access points: receiving a request for a first use from a wireless client device; in response to receiving the request for the first use, allocating a first portion of the collective bandwidth to the first use based on at least one bandwidth allocation rule that is dynamically set and implements in part a bandwidth allocation of the collective bandwidth; allocating a second portion of the collective bandwidth to a second use different from the first use based on the at least one bandwidth allocation rule; and servicing the request for the first use using the first portion of the collective bandwidth, wherein the bandwidth allocation of the collective bandwidth comprises comprising at least a first subset of the collective bandwidth allocated to the first use and a second subset of the collective bandwidth allocated to the second use, and wherein each of the plurality of wireless access points dynamically allocates one or more portions of the collective bandwidth to at least the first use or the second use based on one or more allocation bandwidth rules to maintain the bandwidth allocation of the collective bandwidth.