Patent ID: 8401523

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling a Quality of Service (QoS) of a master Bluetooth® terminal in a piconet, the apparatus comprising: a file-specific band setting unit for setting information about files and information about bandwidths set for the files, both of which are stored in the master Bluetooth® terminal, for a content meta database; a balancing Bluetooth® Network Encapsulation Protocol (BNEP) for, when a slave Bluetooth® terminal requests download service of one of the files, creating a virtual interface for communication with the slave Bluetooth® terminal, transferring a number of the virtual interface and a name of the one of the files to a QoS controller, setting a bandwidth of the virtual interface to a bandwidth of the one of the files when information about the bandwidth set for the one of the files is received from the QoS controller, and providing the download service to the slave Bluetooth® terminal; and the QoS controller for checking the content meta database based on the name of the one of the files from the balancing BNEP, and providing the information about the bandwidth set for the one of the files to the balancing BNEP.