Patent ID: 7079856

Claim:
A method of flow control between a User Equipment (UE) and system equipment of a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting data to the UE at an established data rate in a RECEIVE mode; receiving a STOP data flow control command K times from the UE, where K is an integer equal to 1 or greater; transmitting an ACK-STOP confirmation to the UE; entering into a SUSPEND mode including stopping transmission of data to the UE or reducing transmission of data to the UE to a lower data rate that is lower than the established data rate; receiving a START data flow control command L times from the UE where L is an integer equal to 1 or greater; transmitting an ACK-START confirmation to the UE; and entering into the RECEIVE mode including resuming transmission of data to the UE at the established data rate or at a higher data rate than the lower data rate.