Patent ID: 7961654

Claim:
A method, comprising for concurrent wireless voice and data communications between first and second transceiving units, the first transceiving unit tethered to a voice network and to a data network and the second transceiving unit being mobile, the method comprising: (a) providing plural frequency, time-division-multiple-access/time-division-duplex, channels; (b) combining and transmitting both voice information and data information on the plural channels, by: packetizing the voice information into a first dedicated set of time slots within a time frame associated with a first plurality of time frames; packetizing the data information into a second dedicated set of time slots associated with the first plurality of time frames, a first time slot of the second dedicated set of time slots comprising a forward error correction code shared between the first time slot and a second time slot of the second dedicated set of time slots; and wherein each time slot of the first and second dedicated sets of time slots has a fixed time slot position for the first plurality of time frames.