Patent ID: 7315544

Claim:
A wireless communications network for communicating a data payload, the data payload comprised of data packets, each of the data packets of format for communication over the network, the data payload includes a distinct data type element, the distinct data type element is one of a plurality of data type elements to be sequentially communicated over the network, comprising: a wired network; a wireless channel; a server computer connected to the wired network; a wireless packetized data communications provider equipment connected to the wired network; a client device communicatively connected via the wireless channel to the wireless packetized data communications provider; and a unique global sequence number identifying the data payload, the unique global sequence number being assigned by the server computer to the data payload and included by the server computer in at least one data packet comprising the data payload; wherein the data payload is communicated on the wireless channel, together with the unique global sequence number as part of the data payload; the data payload including a header, the data payload is one of a plurality of data payloads having respective headers for communication over the network, further comprising a compressor for compressing together the header of the data payload with other headers of the other data payloads for communication; and a comparator for determining whether a time differential between receipts by the client device of every other sequential one of the data payloads exceeds a time constant indicative of an effective data receipt rate of the client device.