CONTROLLING DATA COMMUNICATION ACCORDING TO A TYPE OF THE DATA
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Abstract
A wireless network provides a communication bearer with mobile communications devices using an indication of a type of data packets communicated via the communication bearer. The data packets may have a relative priority indicated by the type of the data packets communicated via the communication bearer with respect to data packets communicated via other communication bearers.
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38 Claims
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21. A mobile communications network for communicating data to mobile communications devices, the mobile communications network comprising:
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a core network part including a plurality of infrastructure equipment; and a radio network part including a plurality of base stations which are provided with a wireless access interface for communicating data to the mobile communications devices, wherein the mobile communications network is arranged in operation to provide a communications bearer between one of the mobile communications devices and one or more of the infrastructure equipment via one or more of the base stations for communicating data packets for a communications session to the mobile communications device via the communications bearer, and at least one of the mobile communications device, the base station or the infrastructure equipment is provided with an indication of a type of the data packets communicated via the communications bearer, and arranged in operation to control the communication of the data packets via the communications bearer in accordance with a relative priority indicated by the type of the data packets communicated via the communications bearer with respect to data packets communicated via other communications bearers. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A mobile communications network for communicating data to mobile communications devices, the mobile communications network comprising:
a plurality of base stations which are provided with a wireless access interface for communicating data to the mobile communications devices, wherein the mobile communications network is arranged in operation to establish a communications bearer between one of the mobile communications devices and one or more infrastructure equipment via one or more base stations for communicating data packets for a communications session to the mobile communications device via the communications bearer, and at least one of the mobile communications device, the base station or the infrastructure equipment is provided with an indication of a type of the data packets communicated via the communications bearer which is associated with the communications bearer, and arranged in operation to store the data packets in a buffer which are for communication via the communications bearer from the mobile communications device in accordance with a relative priority indicated by the type of the data packets communicated via the communications bearer with respect to data packets communicated via other communications bearers. - View Dependent Claims (33)
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34. A method of communicating data packets from a mobile communications network to mobile communications devices, the communications network comprising a core network part including a plurality of infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including a plurality of base stations which are provided with a wireless access interface for communicating data to the mobile communications devices, the method comprising:
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providing a communications bearer between one of the mobile communications devices and one or more of the infrastructure equipment via one or more of the base stations for communicating data packets for a communications session to the mobile communications device via the communications bearer; providing at least one of the mobile communications device, the base station or the infrastructure equipment with an indication of a type of the data packets communicated via the communications bearer which is associated with the communications bearer; and controlling the communication of the data packets via the communications bearer in accordance with a relative priority indicated by the type of the data packets communicated via the communications bearer with respect to data packets communicated via other communications bearers. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38)
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