Patent ID: 7961712

Claim:
A communications gateway, configured to receive a packet payload, the packet payload being formatted according to a first communications protocol, comprising: a Media Access Controller/Physical Layer Interface (MAC/PHY) configured to determine whether the packet payload is one of a voice packet or a data packet and to translate the packet payload from the first communications protocol to a second communications protocol; a proxy gateway configured to determine whether the packet payload is to be formatted according to a third communications protocol or a fourth communications protocol when the packet payload is the voice packet; a controller configured to translate the packet payload from the second communications protocol to the third communications protocol when the packet payload is the voice packet that is to be formatted according to the third communications protocol or is the data packet; and a processor configured to translate the packet payload from the second communications protocol to the fourth communications protocol when the packet payload is the voice packet that is to be formatted according to the fourth communications protocol.