Patent ID: 9300391
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04B

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving a plurality of data packets for transmission to a destination node of a communications network, wherein at least a subset of the data packets are associated with a first data session of the communications network, and wherein each data packet comprises header information appended to a data payload, wherein the header information of each data packet includes one or more of real-time transfer protocol (RTP), user datagram protocol (UDP) and Internet protocol (IP) header information; and generating a data frames representing the data packets associated with the first data session for transmission over a channel of a satellite link of the communications network; and wherein the generation of the data frames representing the data packets associated with the first data session comprises stripping the header information from the respective data payload of each data packet and inserting at least one data payload in each data frame, and appending a first pattern of reference symbols to at least one of the data frames, wherein the first reference symbol pattern reflects a first vocoder rate corresponding to voice data of the data payload(s) inserted in the respective data frame.