Patent ID: 7315520

Claim:
A method for saving battery life on a wireless data device and for saving network resources in a CDMA2000 network, said method being performed at the wireless data device and comprising the steps of: if a dedicated traffic channel is not established between the wireless data device and the CDMA2000 network, determining a frame transport capability of a reverse access channel; checking whether a size of a data packet falls within said frame transport capability; and if the size of said data packet falls within said frame transport capability encapsulating said data packet as a data burst message; and sending said data burst message over said reverse access channel and if a dedicated voice traffic channel is established, determining whether the dedicated voice traffic channel supports data transmission; if said dedicated voice traffic channel supports data transmission, determining a frame transport capability of said dedicated voice traffic channel; checking whether the size of said data packet falls within said frame transport capability; and if the size of said data packet falls within said frame transport capability encapsulating said data packet as a data burst message; and sending the data burst message over said dedicated voice traffic channel; wherein said sending step over said reverse access channel or over the dedicated voice traffic channel precludes a dedicated data traffic channel being established for said data burst message thereby saving battery life of said wireless data device and network resources on said CDMA2000 network.