Access Point Throttling Factor for Network Request Prioritization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Home wireless networks face challenges in managing multiple user demands and network resources effectively, leading to potential network performance issues due to equal access and priority for all users and devices without consideration for varying applications and usage patterns.
Innovation Solution
Implementing throttling management in access point devices that determine a throttling factor based on configuration settings to prioritize certain network requests, allowing for queue manipulation to ensure enhanced Quality of Experience (QoE) for specific users or applications without delaying others, by bumping higher priority requests ahead in the queue.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If equal access and priority is provided to all users and network devices, then network fairness is maintained, but network performance and Quality of Experience for specific users deteriorates due to resource contention
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning different priority levels and throttling factors to different users, applications, or network devices based on their specific requirements. The access point device differentiates network requests locally, giving preferential treatment to high-priority requests (such as remote work or video conferencing) while maintaining standard service for others, thus resolving the contradiction between network fairness and performance optimization
2Productivity
If network resources are allocated to prioritize specific users or applications, then Quality of Experience for those users improves, but network resource allocation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses parameter changes by introducing configurable throttling factors and priority levels as adjustable parameters. The access point device monitors network conditions and dynamically adjusts these parameters to optimize Quality of Experience for specific users or applications. The system provides administrator-configurable policies that simplify the complexity by allowing predefined rules rather than requiring complex real-time decision-making algorithms
3Loss of time
If throttling management is implemented to bump high-priority requests in the queue, then response time for priority requests decreases, but queue management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring priority levels and throttling factors for different users and applications before network traffic occurs. The access point device has predetermined policies that automatically determine queue positioning based on these pre-established parameters. This eliminates the need for complex real-time queue management decisions, as the prioritization logic is prepared in advance through configuration
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AI summary
As network resources of a network continue to be stretched due to a variety of users and numerous network devices connected to the network, there is a need to provide management of the network resources to optimize access to the network and to provide enhanced QoE for each user of the network without diminishing a particular user's experience. A throttling management application can provide for throttling one or more requests for an asset associated with one or more network devices. A request can be throttled so as to bump higher priority requests in a queue ahead of other network requests based on a throttling factor. The throttling factor can be associated with a throttling management profile that provides a priority to certain requests of certain network devices without delaying requests from other network devices.