Patent ID: 8009694

Claim:
A server computer communicatively connected to a packet-switched communications network communicatively operating via packet-switched network transport protocols according to a first data payload format for a data payload, comprising: a wireless data communications provider equipment communicatively connected to the server computer, the provider equipment for communicatively connecting to a wireless data communications channel; means for translating the first data payload format to a second data payload format of the data payload for transmission on the wireless communications channel, the second data payload format includes series of data packets in order of a transmission header including a packet type, sequence ID and payload ID, a header packet for the data payload and a header packet for the data payload inserted at beginning, middle and near end of the data payload; means for communicatively transmitting on the wireless data communications channel to a receiver, the data payload of the second data payload format, the second data payload format and is not directly communicatively operative on the packet-switched communications network; means for communicatively receiving on the wireless data communications channel, in response to communicatively transmitting the data payload of the second data payload format by the means for communicatively transmitting, an acknowledgement of either: (i) if all of the series of data packets of the data payload, including at least one header packet, was received by the receiver, a payload received acknowledgement, (ii) if some but not all of the series of data packets, including at least one header packet, was received by the receiver, an identifier of the data packets received, and (iii) if no header packet but at least some of the series of data packets was received by the receiver, no acknowledgement communicated.