Patent ID: 7042905

Claim:
A method for communicating between a communications device and a network system, the method comprising: receiving a first request for a first communication service into a base station system over a wireless transmission link; in response to receiving the first request, dynamically configuring a media access control (MAC) layer in the wireless transmission link for the requested first communication service by identifying a first number of channels of a section of channels of the MAC layer of the wireless transmission link for the requested first communication service; receiving a second request for a second communication service into the base station system over the wireless transmission link wherein the second communication service is a different type of service than of the first communication service; determining if the second communication service has a higher priority than the first communication service based on the types of service of the first and second communication services; in response to determining that the second communication service has a higher priority than the first communication service, dynamically configuring the MAC layer for the second communication service by identifying a second number of channels of the section of channels of the MAC layer and reducing the first number of channels of the MAC layer of the wireless transmission link for the first communication service; generating and transmitting an instruction to provide the requested first communication service and the second communication service over the wireless transmission link using the dynamically configured MAC layer.