Patent ID: 8576837

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: first packet circuit configured to receive a plurality of packets of encoded voice data, wherein the plurality of packets include voice packets, wherein each of the voice packets includes one or more intervals of voice activity, and silence packets, wherein each of the silence packets are void of voice activity, wherein each of the plurality of packets includes a sequence indicator, and wherein the sequence indicators of the plurality of packets indicate an order of the plurality of packets; a second packet circuit configured to, based on the sequence indicators of the plurality of packets, transmit (i) two or more of each of the voice packets, and (ii) only one of each of the silence packets; a voice activity detector configured to (i) detect which of the plurality of packets are the voice packets, and (ii) generate an indication signal indicating which of the plurality of packets are the voice packets; and a flag circuit configured to insert a flag in either (i) each of the voice packets and not the silence packets, or (ii) each of the silence packets and not the voice packets, wherein the flags indicate which of the plurality of packets are voice packets.