公开(公告)号：US20170093727A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-30

申请号：US15062360

申请日：2016-03-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Camille Chen ,  Siegfried Lehmann ,  Hsin-Yao Chen ,  Wenping Lou

IPC: H04L12/853 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W76/02 ,  H04W4/00

CPC classification number: H04L47/2416 ,  H04L65/4069 ,  H04L65/80 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W72/1242 ,  H04W72/1263 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: In embodiments, a client station operates to identify and prioritize time-sensitive short-range wireless packets, such as time-sensitive Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) packets, in a congested wireless environment. The client station may identify time-sensitive packets using, e.g., the type of device providing the packets, a state of the device providing the packets, and/or the type of data included in the packets. The client station may prioritize the time-sensitive packets in various ways, including by providing priority scheduling to the time-sensitive packets; pausing communication of other types of Bluetooth packets, such as A2DP packets; reducing a data rate of other types of Bluetooth packets, such as A2DP packets; and/or extending a data packet size of time-sensitive BTLE packets. The time-sensitive packets may thus be prioritized over packets associated with the same wireless protocol and/or a different wireless protocol.