Patent ID: 7558289

Claim:
A method for transmitting data in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the method comprising: establishing a WLAN, including associating (N) wireless clients with a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system and one or more of the (N) wireless clients each being configurable to operate in one of two modes, a normal transmission mode and a real-time transmission mode, the normal transmission mode being characterized by a configuration that permits the wireless communication system and the one or more of the (N) wireless clients to transmit internet protocol (IP) packets containing TCP/IP headers, the real-time transmission mode being characterized by a configuration that permits the wireless communication system and the one or more of the (N) wireless clients to transmit real-time data packets not containing TCP/IP headers, (N) being an integer greater than (0); configuring one or more transmission parameters associated with each of the wireless communication system and the one or more of the (N) wireless clients to support the real-time transmission mode; generating one or more real-time data packets to be transmitted from the wireless communication system to the one or more of the (N) wireless clients, each real-time data packet containing real-time data in an uncompressed format; and transmitting the one or more real-time data packets from the wireless communication system to the one or more of the (N) wireless clients at a constant bit rate.