Patent ID: 8422447

Claim:
A method for providing data communications over a cellular network, comprising: communicating a call setup message from a first communication device to a second communication device on a first communications channel in said cellular network at a first data transfer rate; in response to said call setup message, communicating a stimulator packet to said first cellular network on said first communications channel at said first data transfer rate, said stimulator packet including data of an amount that equals or exceeds a threshold value; in response to said stimulator packet, transitioning from a first channel mode to a second channel mode at said cellular network and said first or second communication device, said first channel mode different than said second channel mode in which data is transmitted on a second communications channel in said cellular network at a second data transfer rate different than said first data transfer rate; and communicating data packets from said first communication device to said second communication device on said second communications channel at said second data transfer rate.