Patent ID: 9565673
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for controlling transmission of delay-sensitive data from a transmitter over a transmission link in a packet data communication network, where the transmitter is capable of changing between a transmission time internal (TTI) bundling enabled mode and a TTI bundling disabled mode, the method comprising: receiving data from the transmitter over the transmission link; analyzing a quality value of the data transmitted over the transmission link; deciding that the transmitter should change from the TTI bundling disabled mode to the TTI bundling enabled mode based on the quality value; detecting whether the transmitter is in a silent mode, wherein the silent mode is a mode in which a service at the transmitter that generates delay-sensitive data is inactive; and triggering change to the TTI bundling enabled mode in response to the deciding that the transmitter should change from the TTI bundling disabled mode to the TTI bundling enabled mode, but only in response to detecting that the transmitter is in the silent mode, and when detecting that the transmitter is not in the silent mode, waiting on triggering change to the TTI bundling enabled mode until the transmitter is in the silent mode.