US Patent 7609671 Multi-user scheduling for optimizing transmission of delay sensitive traffic

A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for creating a pseudo user from a plurality of users. Packets from the buffers are combined for the plurality of users into a buffer for the pseudo user. A multi-user packet is formed using packets from the pseudo user buffer, wherein the packets have older expiration times as compared to expiration times of other packets in the pseudo user buffer. The multi-user packet is transmitted to the mobile station.