Patent ID: 8526424

Claim:
A telephone adapter that includes an analog port; a data port; an output port that is configured to send packets to an internet service provider via an uplink of bandwidth attributes that are specified; a first converter for developing digital signals from analog signals received at the analog port; a second converter responsive to the digital signals for developing voice packets; a controller for controlling flow of packets to the output port; and a module for coupling the second converter and the data port to the controller, comprising: a speech module interposed between the first converter and the second converter for performing a speech compression and a packetization of the digital signals; and a priority-imposing module within the controller that is configured to: accept the voice packets from the second converter and data packets from the data port; output a voice packet to the output port when the voice packet is available to the priority-imposing module; and output a data packet to the output port when the data packet is available to the priority-imposing module, but only if a voice packet is not available to the priority-imposing module, where the speech compression and the packetization are configured to create a packets flow from the controller to the output port, wherein the packets flow has a bandwidth that is related in a predefined manner to the bandwidth attributes that are specified.