Patent 7627692 was granted and assigned to Nokia on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method, device, system, and a computer program product where compressed control and user-plane messages are multiplexed. The multiplexing of such messages involves distinguishing between control messages and user-plane messages using an identifier accompanying the control messages. The identifier signals an intermediate relay that a particular message is a control message and should be decompressed and processed.