Patent ID: 7457315

Claim:
An apparatus for compressing data, comprising: a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station and operable to receive a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow, the cell site element being operable to track a state of a channel associated with the communications flow and to determine a payload for a portion of the communications flow based on the state of the channel, the payload being communicated to a next destination, the cell site element detecting when an interface is transmitting voice data and when it is not transmitting the voice data, it enters into a discontinuous transmission (DTX) power savings mode, whereby silence on a voice channel is represented as a discrete bit pattern, and wherein silence frames are broken into multiple sub-frames and transmitted via a low-delay packet and the received sub-frames are played out with a jitter buffer, whereby DTX state data is injected into the sub-frames and combined with other sub-frames and the communications flow is played out in sequence.