Patent ID: 8159953

Claim:
A method for managing allocation of access point (AP) resources for an AP providing access to a network, the method comprising: modifying values of present and prior AP resource usages using a pre-determined parameter adapted to increase or decrease affect of the present and prior AP resource usages on resulting value of a recent AP resource usage; determining, for each of a plurality of AP users currently accessing the network via the AP, recent AP resource usage by the AP user, the recent AP resource usage is determined by averaging the prior AP resource usage and the present AP resource usage; determining respective relative user priorities for the plurality of AP users based on the recent AP resource usages by the plurality of AP users, wherein the relative user priorities for the plurality of AP users are relative according to the recent AP resource usages by the plurality of AP users; and adapting allocation of the AP resources to the plurality of users according to the relative user priorities.