Patent ID: 8069465

Claim:
A system for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the system comprising: (a) one or more content devices; (b) a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal each coupled to the wireless communication network; (c) a first end point device of one or more end point devices having an end point communication interface; (d) a network node having: (i) one or more node communication interfaces wherein the network node is coupled to the one or more content devices, and the first wireless terminal through the one or more node communication interfaces; (ii) one or more node application functions transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a node video application; (iii) wherein the node video application includes a conversion engine, the node video application transmitting one or more downstream video streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams; (iv) a master controller function and a node management function each managing one or more node video traffic streams and the one or more application data streams, transmitting the one or more downstream video streams and the one or more application data streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams and the one or more application data streams across the wireless communication network; (v) a common operating system performing resource management and coupled to the one or more node communication interfaces, one or more application functions, the node video application, the master controller function and the node management function; (e) a wireless dongle having: (i) one or more dongle communication interfaces wherein the wireless dongle is coupled to the second wireless terminal and the first end point device through the one or more dongle communication interfaces; (ii) one or more dongle application functions transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a dongle video application; (iii) wherein the dongle video application including a conversion engine the dongle video application transmitting one or more upstream video streams to and receiving one or more downstream video streams from the wireless communication network; (iv) a dongle management function managing one or more application data streams and controlling admission of a dongle video traffic stream originating from the wireless dongle to the wireless communication network wherein the dongle management function manages a set of video traffic streams that includes one or more upstream video traffic streams and one or more downstream video traffic streams, and the dongle management function configures one or more upstream video traffic streams as a first priority based on one or more management commands received from the node management function in the network node; (v) a dongle common operating system performing resource management and coupled to the one or more dongle communication interfaces, the dongle video application and the dongle management function.