Patent ID: 6954432

Claim:
In a time division multiple access wireless communication system that facilitates full duplex transmission of information, the wireless communication system including at least a transcoder, a base transceiver site and a router, the router being operably coupled between the transcoder and the base transceiver site and supporting a non-deterministic packetized transport for communicating information between the transcoder and the base transceiver site as a plurality of information packets, a method for the router to assist in improving signal quality of information transmitted by the base transceiver as perceived by a user of a wireless communication device, the method comprising the steps of: receiving at least one information packet from the transcoder; communicating the at least one information packet to the base transceiver site in accordance with a priority scheme, wherein the at least one information packet forms part of a first communication and wherein the step of communicating comprises determining a priority of a first information packet of the at least one information packet and when the priority indicates that the transcoder and the base transceiver site are presently synchronizing the transcoder transmission time and the base transceiver site transmission time, storing the first information packet for a period of time to enable at least one higher priority information packet of a second communication to be communicated from the transcoder to the base transceiver site; when the priority indicates that the transcoder and the base transceiver site are presently synchronizing the transcoder transmission time and the base transceiver site transmission time, the method further comprising the steps of: inserting a time-delay indication into a portion of the first information packet, the time-delay indication corresponding to the period of time that the first information packet was stored in the router; and communicating the first information packet including the time-delay indication to the base transceiver site, wherein the time-delay indication is used by the base transceiver site to synchronize transcoder transmission time to base transceiver site transmission time.