Patent ID: 8139555

Claim:
A method of communicating a packet data in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a network, a request message including at least one of a first parameter indicating a string of bytes containing header information to be suppressed by the network and a second parameter indicating a total number of bytes in a header to be suppressed, wherein the header is included in data received from an upper layer; receiving, from the network, a response message in response to the transmitted message, wherein the response message includes a third parameter indicating a payload header suppression index; compressing the header included in the received data using the at least first, second, or third parameter; and delivering the compressed header to a lower layer, wherein the at least first, second, or third parameter is respectively applied to an uplink and to a downlink, and wherein the at least first, second, or third parameter that is applied to the uplink is different from the at least first, second, or third parameter that is applied to the downlink.