Patent ID: 7817677

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a time warp control unit, the time warp control unit receiving a time warp indicator and initiating time warping of at least one packet in response to the time warp indicator, wherein the time warp indicator comprises a multi-state indicator such that a first value of the time warp indicator corresponds to a first compression level, a second value of the time warp indicator corresponds to a first expansion level, a third value of the time warp indicator corresponds to processing with no time warping, and a fourth value of the time warp indicator corresponds to processing with time warping at a level different than the first compression level and the first expansion level; decode circuitry coupled to the time warp control unit, the decode circuitry is configured to generate a set of samples from a received packet of data, the decode circuitry is further configured to generate first set of samples in response to the first value of the time warp indicator, a second set of samples in response to the second value of the time warp indicator, a third set of samples in response to the third value of the time warp indicator, and a fourth set of samples different from the first set of samples and the second set of samples in response to the fourth value of the time warp indicator; and an output control unit coupled to the time warp control unit, the output control unit configured to output samples.