Patent ID: 8913564

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at a first access point of a device a first traffic request frame; sending from a second access point of said device a second traffic request frame; receiving at said second access point a traffic response frame; determining a first medium time and a second medium time, the first medium time being based on a first surplus bandwidth allowance, a first packet per second (PPS), and a first medium access control protocol data unit (MPDU) exchange (MPDUExchange) time, which are derived from said first traffic request frame, and the second medium time being based on a second surplus bandwidth allowance, a second PPS, and a second MPDUExchange time, which are derived from said traffic response frame; deriving a bandwidth allocation parameter from said first medium time and said second medium time; and switching said device between said first access point and said second access point according to said bandwidth allocation parameter.