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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2002
Esteban Yepez, Iii, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Garrett P. Splain, Streamwood, IL (US);
Rangrong MA, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Esteban Yepez, III, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Garrett P. Splain, Streamwood, IL (US);
Rangrong Ma, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for de-prioritizing mobile-to-mobile calls in favor of mobile-to-landline calls in a communication system. De-prioritizing mobile-to-mobile calls, which are less sensitive to infrastructure delays due to to their bypass of encoding and decoding steps, allows more delay sensitive mobile-to-landline calls requiring extra processing time due to encoding and decoding to be transmitted over a communication system first. A control processor creates a modified FIFO queue to effect a queuing scheme to de-prioritize mobile-to-mobile calls. Application of the de-prioritizing scheme in a packet based network affords an increase in the quality of mobile-landline calls while not adversely affecting quality of service for mobile-to-mobile calls.