Patent ID: 8649264

Claim:
A method of operating a mobile wireless communications device, comprising: evaluating, in said mobile wireless communications device, a service class related to a flow directed to a base station to determine flow characteristics; analyzing, in said mobile wireless communications device when said mobile wireless communications device is connected via wireless links from the mobile wireless communications device to the base station to which flows can be assigned on an individual per link basis by the mobile wireless communications device, feedback from said wireless links to identify link characteristics, said wireless links being in a bundle of links between the mobile wireless communications device and the base station; and assigning the flow to a selected wireless link in the bundle based upon the flow characteristics and the link characteristics; assigning an additional flow to the selected wireless link; and scheduling said flow and said additional flow over said selected wireless link as a function of a link sharing weight corresponding to said flow and an additional link sharing weight corresponding to said additional flow; wherein a larger percentage of the overall bandwidth of said selected wireless link is allotted by said mobile wireless communications device to one of said flow and said additional flow having the larger link sharing weight.