Patent ID: 8582436

Claim:
A method comprising: allocating periodic resources to a mobile station in a wireless network for transmission of voice data; receiving from the mobile station an indication of a start of a silence period; adjusting, based on the receiving of the indication of a start of silence period, the allocating of the periodic resources from a size and period of resource for the voice data to a size and period of resource for a silence indication (SID) frame; receiving from the mobile station an indication of an end of the silence period; and re-adjusting, based on the receiving of the indication of the end of the silence period, the allocating of the periodic resources from the size and period of resource for the silence indication (SID) frame to the size and period of resource for voice data, wherein the re-adjusting includes transmitting a persistent information element to reallocate persistent allocation from the silence indication (SID) frame transmission to the voice data transmission.