Patent ID: 7209474

Claim:
A wireless communications network, comprising: a wired network; a wireless channel; a wireless application service provider server computer connected to the wired network, operating via network protocols of the wired network for wired communications over the wired network, and operatively dedicated for effecting communications over the wireless channel via specialized transport layer protocols of the wireless channel for wireless communications over the wireless channel; a wireless packetized data communications provider equipment connected to the wireless application service provider server computer, for effecting communications of the server computer over the wireless channel in accordance with the specialized transport layer protocols of the wireless channel; and a wireless device for communicating over the wireless channel, via the wireless packetized data communications provider equipment in accordance with the specialized transport layer protocols of the wireless channel, with the server computer; the server computer is dedicated for communications with the wireless device, through the provider equipment over the wireless channel, via the specialized transport layer protocols; the server computer intermediates communications of the wireless device to be carried over the wired network, by communicating with the wireless device via the specialized transport layer protocols and correspondingly communicating over the wired network via the network protocols of the wired network; the specialized transport layer protocols for communications on the wireless channel reduce acknowledgement communications required per the network protocols of the wired network.