Patent ID: 7555011

Claim:
A method for integrating voice and data traffic in a wireless network, comprising: discretizing a wireless transmission at a wireless communication device into frames of fixed length and having an integer number of packets, wherein each such frame is an embedded bit stream comprising: a voice compartment for carrying digitally encoded voice packets representing a voice portion of the transmission and state information representing a state of a call associated with the transmission, and a data compartment for carrying digital data packets representing a data portion of the transmission, wherein said voice and data compartments are separated from one another by a movable boundary that limits a maximum size of said voice compartment; for each frame that is to be transmitted from the wireless communication device, adjusting a position of the movable boundary based on the state information and thereby allocate an unused portion of said voice compartment of said frame to said data compartment of said frame; and generating packets at the wireless communication device for a time interval during which a transmission is made for a current frame such that the packets so generated are transmitted in the next frame, wherein the state information in the voice compartment is transmitted in a header of a first packet of the current frame and contains state information for the state of the call of the next frame.