Patent ID: 7903688

Claim:
A method for routing one or more voice packets in a communications network, the one or more voice packets comprised in a transmitted sequence of voice packets, the method comprising: receiving a given voice packet to be routed; determining that said given voice packet to be routed has a particular location in said sequence of transmitted voice packets relative to one or more other identified voice packets in said transmitted sequence of voice packets; and setting a routing priority associated with said given voice placket to be routed based upon said particular location in said transmitted sequence of said voice packets relative to said one or more other identified voice packets in said transmitted sequence of voice packets, wherein said sequence of voice packets comprises voice data representative of a talk spurt, wherein said one or more identified voice packets in said transmitted sequence of voice packets comprises a first voice packet in said talk spurt, and wherein said particular location of said voice packet to be routed comprises said voice packet to be routed being within a predetermined number of packets of said first packet in said talk spurt.