Patent ID: 7567532

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a transmitter to transmit data to a base station for a plurality of connections, and the data being transmitted in packets over one or more of a plurality of channels shared with at least one other apparatus communicating with the base station; a receiver to receive from the base station a plurality of packets having a plurality of management messages greater in number than a number of packets, the greater number of management messages being packed into the less numerous number of packets, and including a management message instructing the transmitter to switch transmission of the data between said plurality of connections and said base station from a first of the plurality of shared channels to a second of the plurality of shared channels, the second shared channel being less congested than the first shared channel; and a control module coupled to the transmitter and the receiver to respond to the management message and cause the transmitter to switch from the first shared channel to the second less congested shared channel.