Patent ID: 8908654

Claim:
A subscriber unit comprising: circuitry configured to establish a packet data connection with the network to transfer packet data using at least one wireless channel; wherein the circuitry is further configured to release all the wireless channels and subsequently transfer packet data using at least one wireless channel utilizing the packet data connection; wherein the circuitry is further configured to transfer voice and packet data over a plurality of wireless channels; and wherein the plurality of wireless channels varies in response to commands from a base station, wherein the commands are based on an urgency factor, U, for each of M buffers, where M is the total number of buffers used in the reverse and forward links and the urgency factor for the buffers servicing the forward links are calculated independently of urgency factors for the other buffers servicing the reverse links, and the buffers servicing each transmission direction of a particular connection between a particular one of the subscriber units and the base station are independent of one another.