Patent ID: 7804817

Claim:
A method for controlling a voice activity detector, comprising the steps of: initiating in a first gateway a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) session with a second gateway; transmitting a plurality of jitter adaptation packets from the first gateway to the second gateway; disabling the voice activity detector in the first gateway during the transmission of the jitter adaptation packets; enabling the voice activity detector in the first gateway after the transmission of the jitter adaptation packets; determining whether a packet has been received in the first gateway from the second gateway, wherein the jitter adaptation packets are transmitted after the packet has been received in the first gateway; and counting the jitter adaptation packets transmitted to the second gateway after the packet has been received in the first gateway, wherein the voice activity detector is enabled after a predefined quantity of the jitter adaptation packets is transmitted from the first gateway to the second gateway; wherein the jitter adaptation packets transmitted from the first gateway to the second gateway comprise an initial number of packets transmitted by the first gateway to the second gateway.