Patent ID: 7408913

Claim:
A method of wireless communication comprising: forming a first plurality of sub-frames from a first voice frame by coding the first voice frame and dividing the first coded voice frame into the first plurality of sub frames, the first plurality of sub-frames comprising a first and a second sub-frame; allocating first and second time periods for transmitting the first and second sub-frames, respectively; transmitting at least the first sub-frame in the first time period; transmitting at least the second sub-frame in the second time period in response to receiving a non-acknowledgement message; terminating transmission of the second sub-frame in response to receiving an acknowledgement message to bypass transmission during the second time period; transmitting at least another sub-frame from another voice frame in response to at least one of receiving an acknowledgement messages and a time-out condition, wherein the acknowledgement message is received in response to the receipt of one of the sub-frames of the first plurality; and forming the at least another plurality of sub-frames from the another voice frame, the step of forming another plurality of sub-frames comprises: coding the another voice frame; and dividing the another coded voice frame into the another plurality of sub-frames.