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A wireless server system and method for communicating between a user terminal and Internet a wirelessly. It is based on a user terminal having a fixed terminal and a terminal unit so that an Internet connection can be made by way of the terminal unit to an appropriate wireless server. The system has

A wireless server system and method for communicating between a user terminal and Internet a wirelessly. It is based on a user terminal having a fixed terminal and a terminal unit so that an Internet connection can be made by way of the terminal unit to an appropriate wireless server. The system has at least one wireless server connected to Internet; and a plurality of wireless station devices connected to the wireless server, and the system communicates wirelessly with the terminal unit of the user terminal; wherein one wireless server within a district of communication range of the wireless station devices is designated as a home server for the terminal unit, and the fixed terminal receives data sent wirelessly from Internet by way of the terminal unit.

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A wireless server system and method for communicating between a user terminal and Internet a wirelessly. It is based on a user terminal having a fixed terminal and a terminal unit so that an Internet connection can be made by way of the terminal unit to an appropriate wireless server. The system has

A wireless server system and method for communicating between a user terminal and Internet a wirelessly. It is based on a user terminal having a fixed terminal and a terminal unit so that an Internet connection can be made by way of the terminal unit to an appropriate wireless server. The system has at least one wireless server connected to Internet; and a plurality of wireless station devices connected to the wireless server, and the system communicates wirelessly with the terminal unit of the user terminal; wherein one wireless server within a district of communication range of the wireless station devices is designated as a home server for the terminal unit, and the fixed terminal receives data sent wirelessly from Internet by way of the terminal unit. resources used to transmit data from a base station transmitter within a network comprising a plurality of base station transmitters to a plurality of subscriber unit receivers, the method comprising the steps of: storing the data to be transmitted to a particular one of the subscriber unit receivers in a plurality of data queues, there being multiple queues associated with each receiver, and with each queue allocated to handle data traffic having a particular traffic type attribute, the individual queues associated with different transport layer sessions for a given user; accepting data at a transmit processor within the transmitter, the data arriving from the multiple queues for transmission to the particular receiver; allocating a number of channel resources to the particular receiver; and monitoring usage of each of the queues by a channel resource assignor to determine the urgency of data to be transmitted to each queue's respective receiver in order to dynamically assign an optimum number of channel resources to a communication link between the transmitter and receiver. 11. A method for allocating and deallocating channel resources from a limited number of channel resources used to transmit data from a base station transmitter within a network comprising a plurality of base station transmitters to a plurality of subscriber unit receivers, the method comprising the steps of: storing the data to be transmitted to a particular one of the subscriber unit receivers in a plurality of data queues, there being multiple queues associated with each receiver, and with each queue allocated to handle data traffic having a particular traffic type attribute, each one of the plurality of queues having an associated plurality of thresholds, each threshold associated with the level of data stored in that respective queue, the queue thresholds determined from coding rates assigned to the communications channels associated with the link between the transmitter and receiver; accepting data at a transmit processor within the transmitter, the data arriving from the multiple queues for transmission to the particular receiver; allocating a number of channel resources to the particular receiver; and monitoring usage of each of the queues by a channel resource assignor to determine the urgency of data to be transmitted to each queue's respective receiver in order to dynamically assign an optimum number of channel resources to a communication link between the transmitter and receiver. 12. A method for allocating and deallocating channel resources from a limited number of channel resources used to transmit data from a base station transmitter within a network comprising a plurality of base station transmitters to a plurality of subscriber unit receivers, the method comprising the steps of: storing the data to be transmitted to a particular one of the subscriber unit receivers in a plurality of data queues, there being multiple queues associated with each receiver, and with each queue allocated to handle data traffic having a particular traffic type attribute, each one of the plurality of queues having an associated plurality of thresholds, each threshold associated with the level of data stored in that respective queue, the queue thresholds depending upon a round trip transfer time; accepting data at a transmit processor within the transmitter, the data arriving from the multiple queues for transmission to the particular receiver; allocating a number of channel resources to the particular receiver; and monitoring usage of each of the queues by a channel resource assignor to determine the urgency of data to be transmitted to each queue's respective receiver in order to dynamically assign an optimum number of channel resources to a communication link between the transmitter and receiver. 13. A method for allocating and deallocating channel resources from a limited number of channel resources used to transmit data from a base sta tion transmitter within a network comprising a plurality of base station transmitters to a plurality of subscriber unit receivers, the method comprising the steps of: storing the data to be transmitted to a particular one of the subscriber unit receivers in a plurality of data queues, there being multiple queues associated with each receiver, and with each queue allocated to handle data traffic having a particular traffic type attribute, each one of the plurality of queues having an associated plurality of thresholds, each threshold associated with the level of data stored in that respective queue, the queue thresholds depending upon the round trip transfer time and coding rates; accepting data at a transmit processor within the transmitter, the data arriving from the multiple queues for transmission to the particular receiver; allocating a number of channel resources to the particular receiver; and monitoring usage of each of the queues by a channel resource assignor to determine the urgency of data to be transmitted to each queue's respective receiver in order to dynamically assign an optimum number of channel resources to a communication link between the transmitter and receiver. 14. A system for wireless communication comprising: a base station transmitter within a network comprising a plurality of base station transmitters, the base station transmitter having a transmit processor and connected to a wired network; a plurality of subscriber unit receivers operable for wireless communication with the base station transmitter, a plurality of data queues in the base station transmitter and operable to store data traffic to be transmitted to the subscriber unit receivers, each of the subscriber unit receivers associated with at least one of the data queues, and each of the data queues operable to handle data traffic having a particular traffic type attribute; a plurality of wireless channels responsive to the transmit processor and operable to transmit data from the data queues to each of the subscriber units; and a channel resource assignor in communication with the transmit processor and operable to assign the channels to the subscriber unit receivers, the channel resource assignor operable to monitor usage of each of the queues to determine an urgency factor indicative of the urgency of the data to be transmitted to the respective subscriber unit receiver of each of the queues, and further operable to determine an optimal number of channels to assign to communication to a particular subscriber unit receiver, the urgency determined from the data traffic corresponding to a plurality of the traffic type attributes include content type. 15. The system as in claim 14 wherein each queue further comprises a plurality of queue thresholds, the thresholds indicative of a level of data in the queue. 16. The system as in claim 15 wherein the queue thresholds are indicative of data underflow. 17. The system as in claim 15 wherein the queue thresholds are indicative of coding rates assigned to the communications channels associated with the link between the transmitter and receiver. 18. The system as in claim 15 wherein the queue thresholds depend upon a round trip transfer time. 19. The system as in claim 15 wherein the queue thresholds depend upon a round trip transfer time and coding rates. 20. The system as in claim 15 wherein the queue thresholds depend upon an expected quality and data rate in the channel. 21. The system of claim 14 wherein the traffic type attribute is also indicative of a transport mechanism type. 22. The system as in claim 21 wherein the transport mechanism type is one of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). 23. The system of claim 14 wherein the content type is one of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). 24. The system as in claim 14 further comprising a plurality of transport layer sessions wherein the indivi dual queues are associated with different transport layer sessions for a given user. 25. The system as in claim 14 wherein the channel resource assignor is further operable to compute an urgency factor associated with each queue based upon statistical information gathered for the accumulation of data at the associated plurality of thresholds for that queue, the urgency factor representing a relative need for the transmitter associated with each queue to transmit data, and wherein the urgency factor each queue is used to determine the optimum number of channel resources to be allocated to the connections between the transmitter and receiver. 26. The system as in claim 14 wherein the channel resource assignor is further operable to determine how to allocate the available channels among the buffers by determining if the buffer having the highest urgency factor U exceeds a respective high threshold and if the buffer having the lowest urgency factor U exceeds a respective low threshold, and if so, deallocating one resource channel is from the buffer with the lowest urgency factor and reallocating the one resource channel to the buffer with the highest urgency factor. 27. A system for managing session queues comprising: a base station transmitter within a network comprising a plurality of base station transmitters and having a transmit processor; a plurality of subscriber unit receivers operable for wireless communication with the base station transmitter; a plurality of session queues in the base station transmitter and operable to store data traffic to be transmitted to the subscriber unit receivers, each of the subscriber unit receivers associated with a plurality of the session queues, the data traffic further comprising packets corresponding to a particular traffic type attribute; a plurality of wireless channels responsive to the transmit processor and operable to transmit data from the session queues to each of the subscriber units via a transmit buffer; and a channel resource assignor in communication with the transmit processor and operable to assign the channels to the subscriber unit receivers, the channel resource assignor operable to monitor usage of each of the queues to determine an urgency factor indicative of the urgency of the data to be transmitted to the respective subscriber unit receiver of each of the queues, and further operable to determine an optimal number of channels to assign to communication to a particular subscriber unit receiver, the,urgency determined from the data traffic corresponding to a plurality of the traffic type attributes include content type. 28. A computer program product having computer program code for allocating and deallocating channel resources from a limited number of channel resources used to transmit data from a base station transmitter within a network comprising a plurality of base station transmitters to a plurality of subscriber unit receivers, comprising: computer program code for storing the data to be transmitted to a particular one of the subscriber unit receivers in a plurality of data queues, there being multiple queues associated with each receiver, and with each queue allocated to handle data traffic having a particular traffic type attribute; computer program code for accepting data at a transmit processor within the transmitter, the data arriving from the multiple queues for transmission to the particular receiver; computer program code for allocating a number of channel resources to the particular receiver; and computer program code for monitoring usage of each of the queues by a channel resource assignor to determine the urgency of data to be transmitted to each queue's respective receiver in order to dynamically assign an optimum number of channel resources to a communication link between the transmitter and receiver, the urgency determined from the data traffic corresponding to a plurality of the traffic type attributes. 29. A system for managin g session queues comprising: means for storing the data to be transmitted to a particular one of the subscriber unit receivers in a plurality of data queues, there being multiple queues associated with each receiver, and with each queue allocated to handle data traffic having a particular traffic type attribute; means for accepting data at a transmit processor within the transmitter, the data arriving from the multiple queues for transmission to the particular receiver; means for allocating a number of channel resources to the particular receiver; and means for monitoring usage of each of the queues by a channel resource assignor to determine the urgency of data to be transmitted to each queue's respective receiver in order to dynamically assign an optimum number of channel resources to a communication link between the transmitter and receiver, the urgency determined from the data traffic corresponding to a plurality of the attributes include content type. ted communication network and on an arbitrarily predeterminable scope of the partial communication network resources. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the packet-oriented communication network is realized by a communication network designed according to an asynchronous transfer mode. 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined resources of the packet-oriented communication network are represented by transmission capacity of at least one of wire-bound, optical, and wireless transmission paths in a feeder network of the packet-oriented communication network.