Method and apparatus for preventing transmission of mobile station acknowledgments of receipt and based polled duplicate events

A method (600) for a mobile station (105) configured to send information acknowledgment based on events (250; 258), the method comprising: classifying (605) a block of downlink data (175) as not notified ; receiving (610) a poll from a network (110) requesting that the mobile station (105) sends information of acknowledgment of receipt plumbed (215; 230) for a period; send (665) during the period information acknowledgment based on events (250; 258) for the block of downlink data (175) when a criterion default acknowledgment (655) indicates that it is likely that the network (110) not completely receive acknowledgment information polled receipt (215; 230) during the period; and refrain from sending (665) during the period information acknowledgment based on events (250; 258) for the data block downlink (175) classified as not notified, when the criterion of failure acknowledgment (655 ) indicates that it is likely that the network (110) fully receives the information plumbed acknowledgment receipt (215; 230) during the period.