Patent ID: 6907043

Claim:
A method for transmitting vocoded information comprising: receiving a first vocoded frame from a vocoder; queuing the first vocoded frame; when the first vocoded frame has been queued for a predefined period of time, assembling a transmit frame comprising the first vocoded frame in duplicate, calculating a first inner Frame Quality Indicator (FQI) to represent a quality of the first vocoded frame, and calculating an outer FQI representing a quality of the transmit frame as a whole, wherein assembling the transmit frame comprising the first vocoded frame in duplicate further comprises assembling the transmit frame to further comprise the first inner FQI in duplicate and the outer FQI; when a second vocoded frame is received from the vocoder before the first vocoded frame has been queued for the predefined period of time, assembling a transmit frame comprising the first vocoded frame and the second vocoded frame, wherein the first vocoded frame and the second vocoded frame are half rate vocoder frames and wherein the transmit frame is a full rate air frame.