Patent ID: 8578046

Claim:
A method for determining a media bundling factor for adaptively bundling media frames in a data packet transmitted between a communication server and a user device during a communication in a data communication network, comprising: receiving, via a data channel, at the communication server, an audio transmission request from the user device; checking at least one network usage parameter from the data communication network, wherein the at least one network usage parameter comprises a measured packet delay variation of data packets transmitted between the communication server and the user device; checking a user profile of the user device for a user device-specific bundling factor corresponding to a user device factor that defines an internal operating condition or a user-specific characteristic corresponding to the user device, wherein the user device-specific bundling factor is respectively set according to the internal operating condition or the user-specific characteristic corresponding to the user device; determining a media bundling factor for a communication channel according to the at least one network usage parameter when there is no user device-specific bundling factor or according to the user device-specific bundling factor, wherein the media bundling factor specifies a number of media frames bundled in one data packet; and transmitting from the communication server on the data channel, the media bundling factor for the communication channel along with a control message to the user device, wherein the user device adaptively bundles media frames for the communication channel according to the media bundling factor.