Patent ID: 7191231

Claim:
A method for consistent forwarding of data across wireless and wireline networks, comprising: storing a plurality of correlations between a set of wireline communication priority levels and a set of wireless communication priority levels; receiving from a mobile station an indication of a wireless communication priority level assigned to the mobile station; receiving data from a wireless serving node via a wireline communications network, the data received according to a wireline communication priority level assigned to the data from the set of wireline communication priority levels based at least in part on the wireless communication priority level assigned to the mobile station and one or more of the plurality of correlations; determining from the set of wireless communication priority levels a wireless communication priority level for the data based at least in part on the wireline communication priority level associated with the data and one or more of the plurality of correlations; and transmitting the data to the mobile station according to the wireless communication priority level determined for the data.