transmitted transmission along the channel 78 is thus suspended after an event indicated by the layer 3 interface 83 i e the activation value 83 a upon reception of a resume primitive from the layer 3 interface 83 the finite state machine 90 transitions back to the data transfer state 62 from the local suspend state 66 as with both the reset pending state 64 and the data transfer state 62 upon reception of the release primitive from the layer 3 interface 83 the finite state machine 90 transitions into the null state 61 from the local suspend state 66 terminating the associated channel 78 in the process the reset suspend state 68 exists for those rare situations in which the finite state machine 90 is both suspended as per the local suspend state 66 and awaiting a reset acknowledge pdu 82 a along the associated channel 78 from the second wireless device 200 this may occur when the finite state machine 90 determines that the communications channel 78 is to be reset while in the local suspend state 66 or when the layer 3 interface 83 issues a suspend primitive while the finite state machine 90 is in the reset pending state 64 the reset suspend state 68 is similar to the reset pending state 64 in that no layer 2 communications data 82.