Patent ID: 7633947
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for performing packet bundling of voice frames comprised in a sequence of voice frames to be transmitted across a Voice-over IP communications network, the method performed by an apparatus comprising a processor and a transmitter, the sequence of voice frames comprising one or more talk spurts, the method comprising the steps of: determining, with use of the processor, a location of one or more of said voice frames within one of said talk spurts; classifying, with use of the processor, each of said one or more of said voice frames as one of either a critical frame or a non-critical frame based on the determined location within said one of said talk spurts thereof; bundling, with use of the processor, one of said classified voice frames together with at least one subsequent voice frame thereto in said sequence of voice frames when said one of said classified voice frames has been classified as a non-critical frame; counting, with use of the processor, a number of voice frames which have been bundled together; and transmitting, with use of the transmitter, said bundled voice frames together across said communications network as a single packet when said voice frames which have been bundled together comprise the number of voice frames which exceeds a predetermined threshold.