Patent ID: 7099346

Claim:
In a wireless packet communication network comprising a plurality of base stations for serving a wireless remote station, a method of packet transmission to the wireless remote station, comprising the steps of: (a) upon receiving a first packet intended for the wireless remote station, placing the packet in a buffer and starting an accumulation timer; (b) starting an inter-packet arrival timer; (c) if an amount of data stored in the buffer exceeds a threshold value, sending a message to the wireless remote station to enter a cell-state for dedicated channel communications, and causing a base station to transmit all data from the buffer to the wireless remote station over an assigned down-link channel of the wireless packet communication network in the dedicated channel cell-state; (d) if the amount of data stored in the buffer does not exceed the threshold value, waiting for arrival of a further packet intended for the wireless remote station; (e) if a further packet intended for the wireless remote station arrives before expiration of the inter-packet arrival timer, placing the further packet in the buffer, re-starting the inter-packet arrival timer and returning to step (c) to continue further performance of steps of the method; and (f) if the accumulation timer expires while there is data in the buffer, or if no further packet intended for the wireless remote station arrives before expiration of the inter-packet arrival timer, causing the base station to transmit data from the buffer to the wireless remote station over a channel for forward access communications.