Patent ID: 8576767

Claim:
A method comprising: generating, by a communication session module of a first communications terminal, context information relating to a communication session of a communications network, wherein the communication session comprises a session initiation phase for the establishment of the communication session and a session data phase for the flow of session data packets, and transmitting the context information over a satellite link of the communications network for receipt by a second communications terminal, wherein the generation and transmission of the context information occurs prior to start of the session data phase and receipt of the session data packets by the communication session module; receiving, by the communication session module, the session data packets, wherein each of the session data packets includes at least one header comprising one or more of real time transfer protocol (RTP), user datagram protocol and internet protocol (IP) header information; and generating, by the communication session module, data frames representing the session data packets for transmission over the satellite link, wherein the generation of the data frames includes stripping at least a portion of the at least one header from each of the session data packets, and transmitting the generated data frames over the satellite link; wherein the context information is configured to facilitate regeneration, by the second communications terminal, of the at least a portion of the at least one header stripped from the session data packets.