Patent ID: 7072388

Claim:
An apparatus for negotiating service configurations within a mobile station, comprising a service negotiator configured to use a plurality of states to negotiate for a service configuration between the mobile station and a base station, wherein the plurality of states includes: a Normal Service Subfunction for receiving a proposed service configuration request message from a mobile station user or the base station; a Waiting for Service Response Message Subfunction for receiving a service response message from the base station; a Waiting for Service Request Message Subfunction for receiving a service request message from the base station; a Waiting for Service Action Time Subfunction for receiving an action time associated with a new service configuration, the action time being a time in which the mobile station and the base station simultaneously change over to the new service configuration; and a Waiting for Service Connect Message Subfunction for receiving a service connect message; wherein one of the plurality of states is active at any given time.