Patent ID: 8213310

Claim:
A method of setting up a high-priority communication session within a wireless communications system operating in accordance with a wireless communications protocol, comprising: receiving a communication session set-up message with a flag indicating that a communication session has a high priority status; scheduling a page of an access terminal, the access terminal being one of an initiator of the communication session or a target of the communication session; paging the access terminal; receiving a request from the access terminal for communication session support resources associated with the communication session in response to the page; determining whether sufficient communication session support resources are available for allocating to the access terminal for supporting the communication session; selecting at least one communication session support resource from at least one other access terminal for de-allocation, the selected at least one communication session support resource associated with a communication session having a lower priority than the communication session; sending instructions to the at least one other access terminal to facilitate de-allocation of the selected at least one communication session support resource; and allocating one or more communication session support resources to the access terminal for supporting the communication session after the selected at least one communication session support resource is de-allocated from the at least one other access terminal.