Patent ID: 8478896

Claim:
A method of data encapsulation comprising: forming, using an encapsulation module of a transmission device, at least one frame comprising a data payload configured to store data and a data sequence for transmission by the transmission device across a telecommunication channel; including, by the encapsulation module, one or more control bytes in the data sequence of the at least one frame; and evaluating the data to be stored in the data payload associated with the frame and setting a value of the one or more control bytes in response to the data evaluation, wherein the value of the one or more control bytes is equal to one of: a first control byte value to indicate that one or more values of the data in the data payload following the control byte in the data sequence of the frame corresponds with the first control byte value; a second control byte value to indicate a size of the data in the data payload following the control byte in the data sequence of the frame; and a third control byte value to indicate whether one or more values of the data continue into a data payload of at least a next frame; wherein the value of each one of the one or more control bytes for each of the at least one frame is equal to either the first control byte value, the second control byte value, or the third control byte value.