Patent ID: 8031626

Claim:
A method of providing an enhanced reverse link encapsulation packet over a transmission link that couples a client and a host within an electronic device, the method comprising the steps of: setting a first flag within the enhanced reverse encapsulation packet transmitted from the host to the client requesting that a synchronization pattern be transmitted from client to the host; transmitting two (2) divisors to the client, a first divisor for calculating a factored reverse synchronization pattern rate and a second divisor for calculating a factored reverse data rate; providing a period of time comprising a maximum reverse link data size within the enhanced reverse link encapsulation packet for the client's transmission to the host; wherein the maximum reverse link data size is derived from the two divisors; providing the synchronization pattern at the factored reverse synchronization pattern rate in a reverse data portion of the enhanced reverse link encapsulation packet transmitted by the client; transmitting data from the client to the host at the factored reverse data rate; and terminating the data transmission after exhaustion of the data from the client or reaching the maximum reverse link data size.