Patent ID: 8238262

Claim:
A method for selecting a radio access point of a network through which delivery of packets of a packet data service to a mobile terminal is to be acknowledged, wherein the network comprises a control entity controlling acknowledgement of the delivery of packets of the packet data service to the mobile terminal, the method comprising the following steps performed by the mobile terminal: receiving packets of the packet data service via at least two radio access points; determining, for a respective one of the at least two radio access points, a selection criterion associated to the respective radio access point based on an expected transmission delay experienced by an acknowledgement message sent to the control entity on at least a part of a transmission path from the mobile terminal to the control entity via the respective radio access point; selecting one of the at least two radio access points based on the determined selection criteria; and transmitting at least one acknowledgment message to the control entity through the selected radio access point, wherein said selection criterion is the expected transmission delay and wherein the radio access point offering a minimum transmission delay is selected.