US 2021/0282056 A1 · DYNAMIC POLICY EXCHANGE

Abstract

Dynamic policy mapping is provided via mapping, by an Access Point (AP), a plurality of applications to a set of privilege groups for Quality of Service (QoS) levels in a network; transmitting the mapping of the privilege groups to a client device; receiving packets from the client device including QoS markers; and in response to determining that the QoS markers received from the client device do not match the privilege groups for the packets, performing a corrective action on the client device, wherein the corrective action includes one or more of: disassociating the client device from the network; and retransmitting the set of privilege groups to the client device. In some embodiments, the privilege groups are transmitted before the client device is associated with the AP, enabling the client device to select what AP to associate with based on the privilege groups.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving, at a client device, a first privilege group mapping from a first Access Point (AP) that identifies first privilege levels for one or more applications executing on the client device;
receiving, at the client device, a second privilege group mapping from a second AP that identifies second privilege levels for the one or more applications;
selecting between the first AP and the second AP based on which of the first privilege group mapping and the second privilege group mapping better satisfies requirements of the one or more applications;
establishing a connection with the selected AP;
and
applying Quality of Service (QoS) markers to traffic transmitted from the client device to the selected AP based on the privilege group mapping corresponding to the selected AP.

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Dynamic policy exchange

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Abstract

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