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Bandwidth sentinel

  • US 9,900,251 B1
  • Filed: 07/12/2010
  • Issued: 02/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for configuring a network connection, the method comprising:

  • identifying a wireless network connection of a network between a wireless network device and a client network device, the wireless network connection having network congestion;

    determining a quality score for the wireless network connection, the quality score based on at least two of receiving bit rate usage, transmission bit rate usage, transmission retries, receiving retries, received signal strength indication, and wireless network interface type of the wireless network connection;

    analyzing the wireless network connection, based on the quality score, to determine the wireless network connection is a source of the network congestion;

    determining another quality score for an additional wireless network connection between the wireless network device and another client network device based on at least two of receiving bit rate usage, transmission bit rate usage, transmission retries, receiving retries, received signal strength it and wireless network interface type of the additional wireless network connection;

    determining the additional wireless network connection is a high quality network connection based on the another quality score for the additional wireless network connection;

    allocating additional bandwidth and airtime to the additional wireless network connection based on the determination that the additional wireless network connection is the high quality network connection in order to mitigate impact of the network congestion at the wireless network connection on other network connections of the network;

    using cooperative load balancing to allow other network devices to provide the client network device wireless access to the network in order to mitigate impact of the network congestion at the wireless network connection on the client network device accessing the network.

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