Patent ID: 8867351

Claim:
A method of operating a mobile device, comprising: operating a plurality of logical channel queues, each of the logical channel queues associated with a priority and a traffic shaping rate; selecting, from the plurality of logical channel queues, a highest priority logical channel queue having data for transmission and whose traffic shaping rate is not reached; allocating a portion of a data transmission capacity available to the mobile device, to the selected logical channel queue, wherein the allocated portion is limited by: the traffic shaping rate associated with the selected logical channel queue, the data available for transmission in the selected logical channel queue, and the data transmission capacity; repeatedly considering a next highest priority logical channel queue for selecting and allocating, until at least one of: the data transmission capacity is exhausted, and each of the plurality of logical channel queues is considered for selecting; and thereafter allocating a remaining portion, if any, of the data transmission capacity to one or more of the logical channel queues having data for transmission, selected in priority order.