Patent ID: 7372843

Claim:
An apparatus for compressing data, comprising: a cell site element associated with a base transceiver station and operable to receive a communications flow communicated by a mobile station, the cell site element including a route processor (RP) and a forwarding path (FP) element, wherein the RP is operable to communicate with a proxy element in order to determine if an incoming packet is associated with an internet protocol (IP) such that, in cases where the incoming packet is non-IP based, the proxy element performs a mapping between a non-IP based protocol associated with the incoming packet and an IP protocol in order to generate an IP compatible packet to be processed by the FP element and communicated to a next destination, wherein the cell site element is operable to extract a high-level data link control (HDLC) payload from the packet and to perform a compression process on the HDLC payload in order to reduce a number of bytes associated with the incoming packet, the cell site element being further operable to build a key that maps the HDLC payload associated with the packet to the key, the key being broken into segments that are positioned into a selected one or more of a source internet protocol (IP) address field, a user datagram protocol (UDP) source port field, and a UDP destination port field of a UDP packet, the UDP packet being sent to the RP of the cell site element such that it may be directed to a next destination.