Patent ID: 8121982

Claim:
A method comprising: forming a first wireless link between a device and a first wireless receiver site; receiving a first portion of a data set from the device, wherein the first portion of the data set is transferred via the first wireless link at a first data rate; receiving a second portion of the data set from the device; relinquishing the first wireless link; before the relinquishing the first wireless link, transmitting the first portion of the data set from the first wireless receiver site to a service provider, wherein the first portion of the data set is transferred from the first wireless receiver site to the service provider at a second data rate, the first data rate is greater than the second data rate, and the transmitting the first portion of the data set before the relinquishing the first wireless link is performed in response to the first data rate being greater than the second data rate; and after the relinquishing the first wireless link, transmitting the second portion of the data set from the first wireless receiver site to the service provider.