Patent ID: 7920502

Claim:
A method of receiving telephone information, comprising the steps of: receiving a packet from a satellite at a receiver, said packet having a size of 188 bytes including a header of 4 bytes and a payload; reviewing a payload unit start bit in the header and a telephone code contained in the payload of said packet to determine whether said received packet contains telephone data; associating at least one predefined packet identifier with the presence of telephone data, wherein said step of reviewing the payload unit start bit in the header and the telephone code contained in the payload of said packet to determine whether said packet contains telephone data is based on a comparison of a packet identifier in the header of the packet with said at least one predefined packet identifier; extracting a first frame of telephone data from said packet, wherein said packet does not contain data belonging to an Internet Protocol packet; and forwarding said first frame of telephone data to a first telephone device communicatively connected to said receiver.