Patent ID: 8325608

Claim:
A method, comprising: identifying one or more packets to be discarded; selecting a threshold number of packets based on a number of consecutive packets that can be discarded without a loss of synchronization between a transmitter Robust Header Compression (RoHC) engine associated with a set of packets and an intended receiver of the set of packets; determining whether a number of packets to be discarded will cause a number of consecutive discarded packets to become greater than the threshold number of packets; upon determining that the number of packets to be discarded will cause the number of consecutive discarded packets to become greater than the threshold number of packets, discarding the one or more packets and performing at least one packet processing operation on respective remaining identified packets; and upon determining that the number of packets to be discarded will not cause the number of consecutive discarded packets to become greater than the threshold number of packets, discarding the one or more packets without processing respective remaining identified packets.