METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY ENCODING WIRELESS DATA PACKET HEADERS

摘要

A method and apparatus for encoding wireless data packet headers for transmission of data between a client (102) and a server (104) operating in a data transmission system (100) includes providing a primary format code (202) to be placed within a data packet header field, the primary format code (202) determining when secondary format codes (206-212) are needed, providing conditionally one or more secondary format codes (206-212) to be placed within the data packet header field, the secondary format codes (206-212) determining the format for a set of data items (214) to be placed into a data packet data field, and providing conditionally each member of the set of data items (214) as indicated by the secondary format codes to be placed into the data packet data field, wherein a wireless data packet (200) is generated which can be transmitted between the client (102) and the server (104).