Patent ID: 6847821

Claim:
A program product residing in computer memory in a computer within a wireless communications network for the simultaneous transmission of voice and non-voice data over a single dedicated radio frequency channel to a mobile unit having a primary transmission bandwidth, said program product comprising: instruction means residing in a computer for transmitting voice data to a mobile unit via a primary time interval within a single dedicated radio frequency channel; instruction means residing in a computer for identifying an unoccupied adjacent secondary time interval available to said mobile unit; instruction means residing in a computer for transmitting non-voice data to said mobile unit via said adjacent secondary time interval, in response to identifying said adjacent secondary time interval; instruction means residing in a computer for automatically broadening said primary transmission bandwidth of said mobile unit to encompass both said primary time interval and said adjacent secondary time interval in response to said transmission of non-voice data to said mobile unit via said adjacent secondary time interval; and instruction means residing in a computer for linking said primary time interval and said adjacent secondary time interval within said single dedicated radio frequency channel to permit the subsequent processing of said voice and non-voice data as a single transmitted unit over said single dedicated radio frequency channel.