Patent 7898958 was granted and assigned to Nokia on March, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of transmitting data in a communication system. Data packets are transmitted from a first node to a second node on a first channel. An acknowledgement packet is transmitted from the second node to the first node on a second channel in response to receiving a number of packets on the first channel. The number of data packets that the acknowledgment packet is sent in response to is adjustable.