Patent ID: 7899056

Claim:
A method for reducing overhead, comprising: identifying a plurality of packets that are all to comprise at least one common piece of security information, each of the plurality of packets comprising a header; concatenating the plurality of packets into a single jumbo packet; identifying a base header from among the headers of the plurality of packets; determining a plurality of hamming distances, each hamming distance associated with a respective packet of the plurality of packets other than the base header and indicative of a number of differences between the respective header and another header of the plurality of headers; determining a plurality of encoded values, each encoded value associated with a respective packet of the plurality of packets other than the base header and determined based on a difference between the respective header and at least one other header; generating a jumbo header for the jumbo packet, the jumbo header comprising the base header, the plurality of hamming distances, and the plurality of encoded values; and applying a single set of security information to the jumbo packet, the single set of security information based on the at least one common piece of security information.