Patent ID: 7978603

Claim:
A method for transmitting signals, comprising: receiving a plurality of signals generated in or destined for an isolated region, at least two of the plurality of signals operating under different protocols, the plurality of signals, the signals encoding data packets comprising respective individual payloads and payload envelopes, wherein at least one of the payload envelopes comprises header data that is repeated in at least another one of the payload envelopes; deriving a session entry for each set of the repeated header data from the payload envelopes, wherein each of the session entries comprises information regarding a connection upon which a subgroup of the data packets is transmitted; aggregating the payloads, separated from the respective data packets, into one or more aggregated payloads; and transmitting the one or more aggregated payloads and the session entries via a satellite link to a receiver, wherein the receiver comprises a destination outside the isolated region or comprises the isolated region, the one or more aggregated payloads and the session entries comprising less data than an aggregated amount of data in the individual payloads and payload envelopes, wherein the transmitted one or more aggregated payloads and the session entries are configured for reconstituting the plurality of signals at the receiver.