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Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2013
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Fort Collins, CO (US);

Inventors:

Xunteng Xu, Beijing, CN;

Jun Qing Xie, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 48/06 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/0289 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 28/0205 (2013.01); H04W 28/0231 (2013.01); H04W 48/06 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless access point can identify a group of service providers that can provide access for respective subscriber devices. The wireless access point can periodically monitor its network traffic load. In response to determining that the amount of the network traffic load is above a threshold amount, the wireless access point selects one or more service providers from the group, and impedes use of each of the selected one or more service providers from the wireless access point by one or more additional subscriber devices that have not yet connected to the wireless access point.


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