Patent ID: 8848553

Claim:
A method of selectively transitioning a state of a user equipment (UE) within a wireless communications system, comprising: determining, at the UE, to initiate a communication session with at least one other UE to be arbitrated by an application server; determining a size of a call message to be sent by the UE for requesting initiation of the communication session by the application server, wherein the determined size of the call message indicates that a traffic volume to be transmitted by the UE does not exceed a reverse-link traffic volume measurement threshold configured to trigger a transition of the UE to a dedicated-channel state; selecting a reverse-link dedicated channel as a reverse-link channel on which to transmit the call message based at least in part upon the determined size of the call message even though the traffic volume to be transmitted by the UE does not exceed the reverse-link traffic volume measurement threshold; transitioning the UE to the dedicated-channel state that supports transmissions upon the selected reverse-link dedicated channel by falsely indicating, to a serving access network of the UE, that the traffic volume to be transmitted by the UE exceeds the reverse-link traffic volume measurement threshold; and transmitting the call message on the selected reverse-link dedicated channel after the UE is transitioned to the dedicated-channel state.