Patent ID: 7436786

Claim:
In a telecommunications system providing communication channels for the transmission of packets of audio data between system stations, a method for minimizing the effect of required generated background noise on the transmission channel utilization comprising: forming a transmission stream of sequential digital audio data packets; associating with each audio packet, a data code representation of an Additive Gaussian White Noise (AGWN) payload data packet enabling the generation of said background noise; forming the represented Additive Gaussian White Noise (AGWN) payload data packet enabling said generation of background noise responsive to the receipt of each of said data representations at a system receiving station; interspersing said formed Additive Gaussian White Noise (AGWN) payload packets enabling background noise generation between said associated audio data packets at said receiving station; and generating said background noise between said audio data packets, at said receiving station, responsive to said enabling AGWN payload packets.