data of the plurality of channels for transmission over a cdma channel based on the priority application_number US 201514967863 A description data prioritization 70 is used to reduce data latency in a multiuser channel controller 54 as illustrated in fig4 for a particular common or shared channel certain data must be transmitted on that channel and is shown in the figure as u201c mandatory u201d 88 other data is preferably sent on the particular channel but may be rerouted to another channel such as a dedicated channel this data is referred to as u201c best effort u201d 90 since u201c mandatory u201d data 88 is not reroutable it takes priority over u201c best effort u201d data 90 the type of the data within a packet such as control 96 signaling 98 and traffic data 100 is also used for prioritization to accomplish prioritization of the data type control 96 and signaling 98 data packets are separated from traffic data packets 100 one approach to separating the packets is to group similar data type packets together prior to reception at the controller 54 alternately packets sent by each channel prior to reception by the controller 54 are provided with a flag or identifier indicating the packets 39 data type since a prolonged delay in the transfer of control 96 or signaling 98 data results in a frozen channel control 96 and signaling 98 data are given a higher priority than traffic data 100 additionally data associated with multiple users common or shared 92 has a higher priority than data for a single user dedicated 94 the data prioritization scheme is typically stored.