Medium access control address-based traffic isolation for wireless access points
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsRonak Arunkumar Shah, Arnold Schrider
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Abstract
A processing system of a wireless access point may receive a first frame from an endpoint device, the first frame including a first medium access control address of the endpoint device, determine that the first medium access control address is a medium access control address designated for a differentiated data traffic processing via the processing system, and isolate the first frame for processing via the wireless access point, wherein the isolating segregates, within the wireless access point, the first frame from at least a second frame including at least a second medium access control address that is not designated for the differentiated data traffic processing via the processing system.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a processing system including at least one processor of a wireless access point, a first frame from an endpoint device, the first frame including a first medium access control address of the endpoint device;
- determining, by the processing system, that the first medium access control address is a medium access control address designated for a differentiated data traffic processing via the processing system;
- and
- isolating, by the processing system, the first frame for processing via the wireless access point, wherein the isolating segregates, within the wireless access point, the first frame from at least a second frame including at least a second medium access control address that is not designated for the differentiated data traffic processing via the processing system.
An apparatus comprising:
- a processing system including at least one processor of a wireless access point;
- and
- a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving a first frame from an endpoint device, the first frame including a first medium access control address of the endpoint device;
- determining that the first medium access control address is a medium access control address designated for a differentiated data traffic processing via the processing system;
- and
- isolating the first frame for processing via the wireless access point, wherein the isolating segregates, within the wireless access point, the first frame from at least a second frame including at least a second medium access control address that is not designated for the differentiated data traffic processing via the processing system.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a processing system of a wireless access point, a first packet from a network address translation module of the wireless access point;
- identifying, by the processing system, a first medium access control address designated for a differentiated data traffic processing via the processing system in an options field of a header of the first packet or in a payload of the first packet;
- and
- transmitting, by the processing system to a first endpoint device via a radio unit of the wireless access point, a first frame comprising at least a portion of the payload in accordance with the first medium access control address that is identified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.