Patent ID: 7190972

Claim:
A wireless communications network comprising: a first wireless device comprising a first transceiver for transmitting or receiving a first DECT packet using a DECT protocol; a first computer comprising: a first processor, wherein the first processor transcodes the first DECT packet to a first transcoded packet having a desired compression required by a VoIP session, buffers the first transcoded packet, combines a first plurality of buffered transcoded packets into a first single transcoded packet, and appends IEEE 802.11 header and VoIP header information to the first single transcoded packet; a first DECT transceiver, wherein the first computer is capable of communicating with the first wireless device using the DECT protocol; and a first IEEE 802.11 transceiver, wherein the first computer is capable of communicating with a wired device using an IEEE 802.11 protocol; a second wireless device comprising a second transceiver for transmitting or receiving a second DECT packet using the DECT protocol; a second computer comprising: a second processor, wherein the second processor transcodes the second DECT packet to a second transcoded packet having a desired compression required by a VoIP session, buffers the second transcoded packet, combines a second plurality of buffered transcoded packets into a second single transcoded packet, and appends IEEE 802.11 header and VoIP header information to the second single transcoded packet; a second DECT transceiver, wherein the second computer is capable of communicating with the second wireless device using the DECT protocol; and a second IEEE 802.11 transceiver, wherein the second computer is capable of communicating with the wired device using the IEEE 802.11 protocol, wherein the wired device receives the first single transcoded packet from the first computer and receives the second single transcoded packet from the second computer.