Patent ID: 7768923

Claim:
A method comprising: a client station in a wireless network wirelessly sending information to the client station's access point including information related to the type and/or status of one or more elements in the client station that are operable for playback of time-sensitive data, such that the access point can use the sent information to set a packet age limit that is indicative of when a packet from the access point to the client station is to be aged out, the client station being operable to receive time-sensitive media data for playback, the one or more elements include one or more buffers configured to reduce jitter; and the client station receiving packets from the access point containing time-sensitive data for playback, wherein at least one of A, B, and C is true, A being that the information includes information related to one or more properties of one or more of the buffers, B being that the one or more elements include one or more codecs, each codec being of a codec type, each codec including a decoder configured to playback time-sensitive data, and the information includes information related to the type of at least one codec, and C being that the information includes a request to increase or decrease the packet age limit, wherein the sending of information to the access point includes, during a call that includes communication of time-sensitive data between the client station and the access point, sending a request for the access point to increase or decrease the packet age limit based on the arrival time of packets from the access point relative to the size and occupancy of at least one of the one or more buffers, and wherein the client station ascertains whether to request increasing or decreasing the packet age limit using information on the relative end-to-end delay for time-sensitive data between a sender and the client station, the relative end-to-end delay being relative to a delay budget and the size of at least one of the one or more buffers configured to reduce jitter.