Patent ID: 7733793

Claim:
An apparatus for suppressing data, comprising: a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station in communication with a mobile station of an end user, the cell site element operable to: receive a first packet comprising a first payload communicated by the mobile station, the first payload comprising a first voice sample of comfort noise; communicate the first packet to an aggregation node configured to build a context from the first payload; determine a comfort noise difference between a second payload of a second packet received by the cell site element and the first payload, the second payload comprising a second voice sample of comfort noise; if the difference is greater than a predetermined threshold, communicate the second packet with the second payload, the predetermined threshold representing a maximum acceptable comfort noise difference; if the difference is smaller than the predetermined threshold: communicate the second packet without the second payload to the aggregation node; and communicate a delta corresponding to the difference to the aggregation node, the aggregation node configured to insert an equivalent payload for the second packet that is based on the context and the delta into the second packet and send the second packet to a base station controller.