Patent ID: 11936761
Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) of a cellular communication system, the method comprising:
packetizing application data from one or more applications to create data packets;
associating one or more packet tags with each of the data packets, the one or more packet tags including at least one of an application identifier and a customer identifier;
based on a first packet tag of a first data packet, designating the first data packet as a non-preferred data packet and storing the first data packet in a first uplink transmission queue;
based on a second packet tag of a second data packet, designating the second data packet as a preferred data packet and storing the second data packet in a second uplink transmission queue;
discarding the first data packet from the first uplink transmission queue after the first data packet has been in the first uplink transmission queue for longer than a first timeout period without being transmitted;
retaining the second data packet in the second uplink transmission queue after the second data packet has been in the second uplink transmission queue for longer than a second timeout period without being transmitted, the first timeout period and the second timeout period having a same length of time value; and
transmitting the second data packet using a radio access network.