Patent ID: 6954460

Claim:
A method of creating a packet having one or more compressed headers, the method comprising the steps of: receiving call set-up information; receiving call data; creating a data portion of the packet using the call data; creating one or more current headers using the cell data and the call set-up information; compressing the one or more current headers, further comprising the steps of whenever one or more previous headers are not found, saving the one or more current headers as the one or more previous headers and usings the one or more current headers as one or more compressed headers; and whenever the one or more previous headers are found, creating the one or more compressed headers using one or more differences between the one or more current headers and the one or more previous headers and saving the one or more current headers as the one or more previous headers; and creating the packet by attaching the one or more compressed headers to the data portion of the packet.