Patent ID: 7839887

Claim:
A system for providing frame rate conversion for audio data, comprising: a first client configured to transmit audio data frames at a first frame rate using a first protocol; a second client configured to receive audio data frames at a second frame rate using a second protocol, wherein the first frame rate is different from the second frame rate; and a voice-over-IP (VoIP) gateway device configured to facilitate transmission of audio data frames between the first client and the second client in the respective first and second protocols, wherein the VoIP gateway device is configured to: store the audio data frames received from the first client in an intermediate storage area until at least a data size associated with the second frame rate is received from the first client; and repackage the stored audio data frames into one or more frames for transmission to the second client at the second frame rate, wherein the audio data frames transmitted at the first frame rate have a first interval between the frames, wherein the audio data frames transmitted at the second frame rate have a second interval between the frame, and wherein the first interval and the second interval are constant, and wherein a total amount of audio data received by the second client in the one or more repackaged frames is equal to a total amount of audio data transmitted by the first client in the audio data frames.