Patent ID: 8792349

Claim:
A computer implemented method of balancing load of access points (APs) that are part of a wireless network access system (WNAS), the method comprising: associating at least one wireless mobile node (WMN) to a plurality of APs, wherein said at least one WMN and said plurality of APs are part of the WNAS; initiating an association of a given WMN with the plurality of APs by inserting the given WMN into the back of a first come first served (FCFS) queue of each of the APs with which the given WMN has successfully been associated with; maintaining the associations of the at least one WMN with the plurality of APs; servicing the at least one WMN through the FCFS queue on each of the plurality of APs concurrently, by providing service to a given WMN that reaches the front of the FCFS queue of a given AP, as soon as the service is available; receiving service at the at least one WMN from the plurality of associated APs within the WMN's communication range simultaneously; and placing an associated WMN that reaches the front of a given AP's FCFS queue to the back of the FCFS queue, without providing service, if the associated WMN has no message or packet to transmit.