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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2015
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hang Zhang, Nepean, CA;

Peiying Zhu, Kanata, CA;

Wen Tong, Ottawa, CA;

Nimal Gamini Senarath, Nepean, CA;

Derek Yu, Kanata, CA;

David G. Steer, Nepean, CA;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G01R 31/08 (2006.01); H04W 28/24 (2009.01); H04B 7/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 16/26 (2009.01); H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/24 (2013.01); H04B 7/2606 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04W 76/022 (2013.01); H04W 16/26 (2013.01); H04W 28/18 (2013.01); H04W 84/047 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless communication access path exists between an ingress station and an egress station. A logical communication tunnel is established between the ingress and egress stations directly or through any number of intermediate relay stations to handle session flows of PDUs. As PDUs arrive, the ingress station may determine and add information bearing on an identified QoS associated with the PDU to the PDUs before they are delivered to the downstream egress station(s) or intermediate relay station(s). The information may be used by the downstream stations to schedule the PDUs for further delivery. The information may also be used by the egress station to schedule the PDUs for delivery.


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