Patent ID: 8065437

Claim:
A system for compressing a header of a plurality of data packets of a flow transmitted through a data transmission network, comprising: an ingress node and an egress node; wherein the ingress node is configured to: perform a flow lookup comprising determining if an existing compression template matches an address associated with the flow in a template and label table; create a new compression template in the template and label table from a predetermined number of uncompressed data packets at a beginning of the flow respectively transmitted by the ingress node and received by the egress node, wherein the new compression template is identical in the ingress node and the egress node, wherein the new compression template is created if the existing compression template is not found by the ingress node in performing the flow lookup; and compress a header of each packet of the plurality of data packets following the predetermined number of uncompressed data packets before transmitting the plurality of data packets through the data transmission network, wherein the ingress node compresses the header of each packet by using the new compression template.