Patent ID: 8175036

Claim:
An access point device for providing an information packet to a user device comprising: an application module comprising an information management module, a queue, and a buffer, the application module configured to receive an information packet for transmission to an intended recipient; and a radio module configured to transmit the information packet stored in the buffer to the user device and to determine if the information packet was successfully received at the user device, wherein the information packet is stored in the queue and the information packet is passed from the queue to the buffer for transmission by the radio module to the user device, the information management module receives information from the radio module indicating whether the information packet was successfully received by the intended recipient, if the information packet was not successfully received at the user device the information packet is again passed from the queue to the buffer for retransmission by the radio module; wherein the information packet is transmitted to the access point by a media server and the information management module is configured to stop the information packet being received at the application module by sending a command to the media server to stop the flow of information packets from the media server; wherein the information management module comprises a filter module configured to filter packets for defined recipients, the filter module sending the command to the media server to stop the flow of information packets from the media server by sending a command that appears to the media server to have been sent from the intended recipient.