Patent ID: 7639697

Claim:
A method for communicating voice signals, comprising: facilitating a downstream DSL voice channel transmission process at a subscriber premise Network Interface Device (NID), wherein the downstream DSL voice channel transmission process facilitates convening a voice component of a downstream DSL data stream to a corresponding downstream analog voice signal, wherein converting the voice component includes assessing a channel identifier of each downstream transmission unit of the voice component of the downstream DSL data stream and correlating the channel identifier to a particular type of content carried within each downstream transmission unit; and facilitating an upstream DSL voice channel transmission process at the subscriber premise NID, wherein the upstream DSL voice channel transmission process facilitates converting an upstream analog voice signal to an upstream voice component of an upstream DSL data stream and processing voice signal upstream transmission units of the upstream analog voice signal, wherein said processing of the voice upstream transmission units includes segmenting contents of said voice signal upstream transmission units and assigning a channel identifier to each one of said segmented voice signal upstream transmission units, wherein the channel identifier of each one of said segments designates a particular type of content carried within each one of said segments.