Patent ID: 7929571
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for communicating data, comprising: a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station, the cell site element configured to perform the following for a first configured amount of time: receive a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow; determine that one or more samples of a plurality of samples included in the flow should be suppressed; suppress the selected one or more of the samples by not transmitting the one or more selected samples; and transmit a sample of the plurality of samples if the sample has changed in comparison to a previously transmitted sample; the cell site element further configured to: retransmit the sample when the sample has stopped changing, in comparison to a previously received sample, for a second configured amount of time, the second configured amount of time beginning after the start of the first configured amount of time.