Patent ID: 8355399

Claim:
A method of providing data communication in a packet data network that includes determining whether a size of a packet can be reduced by compression of the packet, and having respective packet compressor/decompressors (PCDs) located at an origination node and at least one destination node of a network in order to provide packet communication between a sender and a receiver, the method comprising: receiving the packet from the sender at a PCD of the origination node, determining compressibility of the received packet and, in response thereto, performing at least one of (i) sending the received packet over a first channel when the received packet is incompressible, or, (ii) compressing the received packet and sending the compressed packet over a second channel when the received packet is compressible; decompressing the compressed packet at a PCD at the at east one destination node when received over the second channel; and forwarding the decompressed packet to the receiver.