Patent ID: 7460524

Claim:
A method of communication comprising: communicating at least one physical layer frame, wherein communicating comprises at least one of transmitting the at least one physical layer frame and receiving the at least one physical layer frame, the at least one physical layer frame including content frames formed by: selecting a portion of a plurality of content frames available for communicating via the at least one physical layer frame, wherein selecting the portion of the plurality of content frames comprises modifying a number of content frames used to form the at least one physical layer frame, and wherein each content frame comprises at least one of a voice frame and a data frame, and wherein the portion is selected based on a condition of a channel for communicating said at least one physical layer frame; and combining the selected portion of the plurality of content frames with a header formed according to a transmission protocol so that the at least one physical layer frame includes a payload having at least two content frames and at least one Internet Protocol header indicating a source address and a destination address of the physical layer frame.