Patent ID: 6577639
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H04J

Abstract:
A method comprising:conveying transmit data samples followed by fill data samples to a transmit buffer, the transmit data samples encoding transmit data generated for transmission to a receiver, the fill data samples having been generated to consume transmission time when transmit data are unavailable, the transmit buffer being segmented into a plurality of blocks for storing the transmit data samples and fill data samples, the number of blocks being smaller than the total sample capacity of the transmit buffer, a total number of samples conveyed to the transmit buffer being chosen to fill the transmit buffer to a boundary between the blocks; conveying the contents of the transmit buffer to the receiver; and after filling a current block of the transmit buffer with transmit data samples and fill data samples, replacing fill data samples in the current block with transmit data samples when additional transmit data samples become available prior to conveying the fill data samples to the receiver.